On 2017-02-13 20:24-0000 p.d.rosenb...@gmail.com wrote: > I have absolutely no efficiency concerns. The cpu cycles will be totally negligible compared to the time to copy the memory. To be honest I rarely stress about efficiency. Premature optimisation is usually a bad thing – don't forget that the compiler has the ability to totally optimise away your classes anyway if it sees fit.
Hi Phil: I completely agree with you on the perils of premature optimization, and it sounds like for both of us, if it is a choice between code clarity and some minor efficiency issue, code clarity wins every time. > My concern is more style and maintenance related. Placing all the communication code in one class or a family of parent and child classes makes sense logically which makes maintenance easier and allows different communication methods to be swapped in should we need in the future – for example it would mean that the change from the current ipc method to a new one would be a single line of code, once that new method is written. Good point which I finally understand now. And it sounds from what you have said that my mental model of what needs to be done to convert my present local instance method to the private object method is correct so I will just go ahead and make that implementation change without bothering with testing the efficiency of the local instance versus private object methods. Thanks very much for the above instructive feedback! Now that this issue has been cleared up, I hope to have some useful results to report soon. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
