isNil ==nil in Morphic Cleaning Project

stéphane ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Sat Sep 17 18:00:27 UTC 2005


I agree but this was not my point here. :)

On 17 sept. 05, at 20:43, Andres Valloud wrote:

> Hello Stéphane,
>
> Saturday, September 17, 2005, 12:22:45 PM, you wrote:
>
> SD> I cannot find anymore the email where it was mentioned that
> SD> Morphic got a slow down after refactoring some == nil into isNil
> SD> or related. I would like to know whether a cs has been made that I
> SD> look at it for 3.9a.
>
> I would suggest that the real issue is why is it necessary to check ==
> nil in a system that supports polymorphism.  Morphic will go even
> faster if it's not necessary to check stuff like that.
>
> -- 
> Best regards,
>  Andres                            mailto:sqrmax at optonline.net
>
>
>




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