Monticello Definitions Instances class variable

Bert Freudenberg bert at impara.de
Wed Jun 14 12:19:00 UTC 2006


Am 14.06.2006 um 10:33 schrieb Noury Bouraqadi:

> Hi,
>
> Why are monticello definitions are stored into Instances class  
> variable of class MCDefinition?

To save space.

> It's just a matter of fast snapshots?

No, it's a registry to avoid duplicate definitions. When you load two  
versions of packages after each other, usually only very few  
definitions are actually different, we want to avoid having the  
duplicates twice in the image.

- Bert -




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