On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Charles Srstka <cocoa...@charlessoft.com> wrote: > How about just giving your object only one instance variable, which is a > pointer to a C struct, with all the object’s accessor methods pointing to > elements in the struct? Then, all you’d have to do would be to swap out the > struct for another one, or zero the struct. No runtime hacking, no > assumptions about the internals of the object format.
And if allocation of *that* struct becomes a performance problem, swap in a new allocator like jemalloc. I recently read something about Blender enjoying a startling performance improvement by switching to jemalloc, because they malloc and free tons of small structs. --Kyle Sluder _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
