On 14 October 2015 at 10:38, Paul Sandoz <paul.san...@oracle.com> wrote: >> On 14 Oct 2015, at 06:18, Stuart Marks <stuart.ma...@oracle.com> wrote: >> I'm not entirely sure what to take from this. If it were clearly >> exponential, we could say with confidence that above a certain threshold >> there would be vanishingly little benefit adding more arguments. But since >> the curve seems to flatten out, maybe this is pushing us to add more pairs >> than we had originally thought. The current draft API has 8 pairs; that >> seems to leave a few percent of cases on the table. Obviously we can't get >> to 100%, but is 97% good enough?
I'd say 5 is definitely too little, without an easy builder fallback (as Guava provides). I'd say the right number is between 8 and 10. Stephen
