From: Nikodemus Siivola <tsiivola@...>
Date: 2002-04-13T06:43:46+09:00
Subject: Re: How to Make a Method Ineffective Efficiently?


On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, William Djaja Tjokroaminata wrote:

> 3) When I define the method with variable number of arguments, I think the
> objects will still be passed in the array even though the method
> actually does nothing.

Hmmm... Have you tried? Because ruby is pass by reference, so the overhead
is minimal.

> 4) Doing preprocessing on the code will not work, because the state can
> only be inferred within the code execution, as dictated by the member data
> "@active".

So this state is not global and will change during execution?

 -- Nikodemus