Re: Objective-C and Smalltalk; speed of message send

[Marcus Müller]

On 10.08.2004, at 18:47 Uhr, Travis Griggs wrote:

> keyed tallies. This would replace an existing 2D array in strict C. We 
> decided to use NSStrings as the keys. To maintain a backwards bridge, 
> we took the old 2D access indices and turned them into a string. And 
> then stored/set them in the NSMutableDictionary via those. The 
> performance was not impressive. I got some pointers from this

I believe that this can be safely considered to be a classic now. Read 
http://www.mulle-kybernetik.com/artikel/Optimization/opti-7.html and be 
surprised how worse things are in real life. ;-) Although GNUstep isn't 
discussed in the article, probably some of the same problems reside in 
gnustep-base.

Cheers,

  Marcus

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