Benjamin Goldberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Leopold Toetsch wrote:
>> Further: having clone implemented in terms of freeze + thaw needs >> additional memory for the intermediate frozen image. Isn't that >> suboptimal? > Only slightly -- It's just *one single* PMC's data that's stored in that > additional memory. Didn't you mention that freeze() won't return, until its done for that PMC. This means, that cloning a aggregate of 100.000 plain ints would generate the whole byte streamm of all items, which then gets thawed again. > And if we have a seperate clone vtable method, then there's a chance > that our cloning procedure will drift apart from our freezing/thawing > procedure. Yes. so still IMHO: >> A general traverse routine or iterator seems to be more flxible. and no, not that one inside DOD, that one doesn't handle duplicates. leo
