novehrady discussions

[Waldo Bastian]

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On Friday 29 August 2003 01:06, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> III. Move typecodes to a single block
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>
> Right now the message body is "typecode, data, typecode, data"
> and suggestion is to move to "typecode, typecode, data, data"
>
> This slightly decreases message-creation efficiency since each append
> arg operation affects two places in the message.
>
> The reason for the change is to speed up method resolution and
> typechecking. If you allow overloaded methods as C++ does then you
> need to include the signature in the method lookup.  Even in C it may
> be faster or nicer to do all the typechecking up-front.

DCOP allows overloading but it is cumbersome in combination with scripting 
languages that don't have strong typing. Life is easier without overloading.

Cheers,
Waldo
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