Re: TIL redux (was Re: What will the Perl6 code name be?)

[Uri Guttman]

>>>>> "NT" == Nathan Torkington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

  NT> Uri Guttman writes:
  >> overall i agree. but i use objects much more now and don't think about
  >> the runtime cost at all (estimated to be %30)

  NT> All the world is not an Uri.

and aren't we all glad about that! :)

  NT> I know a company that had to rewrite most of their OO code because
  NT> it was the bottleneck in their application.  The rewrite was
  NT> enough to move the speed from "too slow" to "acceptable", and all
  NT> they did was deobjectify the design.

that is a fine decision if speed is critical. others use OO to speed
developmemt at a cost of runtime speed. i have worked on projects which
have had one of those as the higher priority as i am sure many of us
have.

uri

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