Re: Introducing "Array Of" RFC

On 1/19/14, 9:13 AM, Philip Sturgeon wrote: > I think its a nice logical improvement which syntactically offers a > replacement for looney boilerplate code, exactly like Variadics which > a LOT of people are excited about. Actually variadics solves a problem that can't be solved other ways, namely by-ref for an unknown number of arguments. There is no userspace boilerplate code, looney or otherwise, that can do that. I won't argue whether the base need is great enough here. I am sure it is to some people. I do have an issue with the idea that the right solution is a full hash table scan on every function call. I have a feeling that if this makes it in this is one of those features that will be high my list for optimization/refactoring when I run across it in code. As in, replace the per-call hash scan with a single userspace scan that is only done once earlier in the stack. From a performance perspective the only-done-once userspace version is extremely likely to outperform this built-in per-call check assuming more than a trivial amount of calls to the function in question. -Rasmus

Attachment: [application/pgp-signature] OpenPGP digital signature signature.asc