[squeak-dev] Object>>is:

Levente Uzonyi leves at elte.hu
Fri Feb 11 14:57:04 UTC 2011


On Fri, 11 Feb 2011, Igor Stasenko wrote:

> Since this method is hardly useful from any other code but morphic,
> then what it does in SmalltalkImage?

That's a good question, but unrelated to this thread.

> It should belong to UI universe.. and UI uninverse should know how to
> tell all morphs to do that cleanup.. and then you don't need anything
> related to it in Object protocol.
> It makes no sense asking every object in system in a way like that.

It's a lot faster asking all objects, than asking only the Morphs.

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> So, all you need is to think a bit more broadly in a sense, how to
> improve system and remove crappy patterns from use,
> but not blindly replace one pattern by another , which replacing one
> flood with another.

If you can show a pattern for this which has comparable performance with 
the current implementation, then I'm all ears.


Levente

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