From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2008-02-22T02:06:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Object#freeze as a basis for caching of method results?

2008/2/21, Shot (Piotr Szotkowski) <shot@hot.pl>:
> // Thanks a lot for that delegate tutorial in the other post –
>  // I finally understood what's delegation for and how to do it! :)

Nice side effect of this thread. :-)

>  Robert Klemme:
>  > 2008/2/21, Shot (Piotr Szotkowski) <shot@hot.pl>:

>  > Now, whether you use the String or demarshal probably mainly depends
>  > on memory usage. If the String is short enough that approach is
>  > certainly preferable because it incurs less processing overhead
>  > (demarshaling).
>
> Ok, I'm totally lost here. I don't see any demarshalling happening,
>  just marshalling (and using that as a key)… What am I missing?

Demarshalling was the option I had thought of.  A copy through
marshalling _might_ use less memory than the marshaled form (the
String).

>  > What kind of dope are *you* smoking? :-)
>
> I'm a PHP programmer˛ by day.

Uh, oh. *cough* :-)

>  ˛ http://civicrm.org/
>
>  -- Shot (seriously, though, it's a sig of unknown origin from Stewart
>  Stremler's collection: http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~stremler/sigs/sigs.html)

:-)

Cheers

robert

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