[squeak-dev] Re: The defaullt implementation of isEmpty might do too much work

monty monty2 at programmer.net
Fri Oct 21 22:59:48 UTC 2016


All non-trivial collections implement #size or inherit a custom implementation, usually just as a return of an inst var. Your #do:-based one is 3x as slow in my tests, so you've now made #isEmpty slower for every collection that implements #size just to benefit ones whose careless authors didn't and so the implementors of lazy collections have one fewer message to override.

Do not do this. People already avoid #ifEmpty: and related messages where performance matters and shouldn't have to avoid #isEmpty too.


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