On 11 February 2011 15:57, Levente Uzonyi <leves at elte.hu> wrote:
> 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.
>

Morphs are just a subset of all objects.. So, please tell me how
sending a message to all objects could be faster than sending message
to all morphs? :)

>>
>> 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.
>

Since when performance became the only criteria for reasoning about
implementation quality?

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> Levente
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Best regards,
Igor Stasenko AKA sig.