Re: Traits and memory size
| From: | Stefan Marr | Date: | Tue, 10 Apr 2012 07:42:47 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Traits and memory size | ||
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Hi Ben:
On 10 Apr 2012, at 03:34, Ben Schmidt wrote:
> During the flattening process, is a copy made of the trait code (or
> bytecode or whatever)?
Thanks to Dmitry, the op_array, i.e., the methods op codes are not copied but shared between the
methods.
Thus, there is a certain memory benefit of sharing code in traits, compared to manual copy and past.
Best regards
Stefan
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