[squeak-dev] [Chronology] is this patch OK? 0007356: DateAndTime fromSeconds: 0.5 => walkback, broken since Mantis 4669

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Sat Jul 11 22:31:53 UTC 2009


On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 11:16:30PM +0100, Keith Hodges wrote:
> David T. Lewis wrote:
> > Brent, G?ran,
> >
> > I have a patch for Chronology on http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=7356
> > (7356: DateAndTime fromSeconds: 0.5 => walkback, broken since Mantis 4669).
> > If there are no objections, I'll apply the update to the Kernel package
> > on source.squeak.org/trunk.
> >
> > The patch seems to result in about an 8% slowdown for DateAndTime class>>now,
> > but is presumably still much faster than was the case prior to applying
> > Mantis 4669: [ENH] TimeForSpeed.
> >
> > I think this change is the right thing to do, but I want to check with
> > you before applying it.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Dave
> >   
> 
> DateAndTime now is very fast I spent a fair bit of time on it. I can
> only suppose you havent read the comments.

Keith,

On the contrary, I could not help but notice your optimizations. Most
are OK, but please see Mantis 7357: "DateAndTime class>>localOffset broken
since Mantis 474" concerning one change that definitely is not.

Dave




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