Remaining to-do items for 3.7
Avi Bryant
avi at beta4.com
Tue Feb 17 03:20:26 UTC 2004
On Feb 16, 2004, at 4:58 PM, Timothy Rowledge wrote:
> On Feb 16, 2004, at 4:42 PM, Avi Bryant wrote:
>> Sure, but given both options I don't understand the bias towards
>> using a plugin that depends on an external library. Except in cases
>> where it's impossible to get adequate performance in pure Squeak,
>> shouldn't the bias go the other way?
> My general rule is to go for the way that involves least work. If the
> case were that using a C pcre library (and by the way, that 32kb
> plugin size does include the size of the compiled pcre library) and
> some methods to call it was available and a 'pure Smalltalk' package
> was not - I'd go for the former. Somebodyelse did the work, maintains
> it etc- slamdunk.
>
> In this particular case there _is_ a purely Smalltalk solution that
> sounds quite plausible. What size does it add to the image? It's
> probably smaller, but maybe not. What sort of memory usage does it
> cause in running?
The VB-Regex package is a 120k fileout, the RePlugin is about a 450k
fileout, FWIW. Not sure why the RePlugin is so big, it may just have a
larger test suite.
But here's a more pertinent question - which will handle i17n better?
Probably neither will out of the box, but which will be more work to
adapt? I don't know the answer, though in general I would expect such
things to be easier when we have Smalltalk code all the way down...
Avi
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