Re: A reference to
Re: A reference to
- Subject: Re: A reference to
- From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 07:25:46 -0700
On 6/7/01 10:35 PM, Christopher Nebel <email@hidden> wrote:
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I recently discovered the term "clue-by-four." I like it. (See
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<http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/clue-by-four.html> for
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full details.)
Yeah, I've liked that term for years. Thanks for the reference, though;
it added "smite with the great sword Cluebringer" to my aresenal. :)
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I don't know exactly why references have the performance characteristics
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they do, but it seems to short-circuit some checking AppleScript
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normally does for circular references. (Why these checks are there in
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the first place is also something of a mystery to me.) In my mind, the
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question is not "why are references fast", but rather "why are
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non-references slow?" The "reference to" trick is completely un-obvious
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and un-documented, and I'd rather have the normal case behave well if at
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all possible.
Ah, the joys of maintaining and expanding on someone else's code.
--Michelle
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