On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 03:17, Leopold Toetsch via RT wrote: > I'd rather not have the cloning in the C code. If you don't reuse the > nested structure descriptor, it's wasting resources.
There could be another property that tells how many times someone is using it. I don't think you will like that idea much either though. On the other hand, duplicating only nested structs seems like it would use *less* memory than cloning the entire initializer. > I think implementing the C< clone > vtable in unmanaged struct would be > much cleaner. If you want to reuse a structure then clone it in the code. > > The question with C< clone > just is: how deep should it copy. This > holds as well for arrays and hashes. > > Anyway, if it's a deep copy, then we probably would need freeze/thaw in > the UnManagedStruct PMC. I prefer a deep copy; I really don't want to keep around every initializer in a complex struct such as SDL_Surface to clone each *Struct and rebuild it every time. -- c
