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Re: struct variable definition (in var.h)
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John Darrington |
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Re: struct variable definition (in var.h) |
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Mon, 8 Nov 2004 17:44:30 +0800 |
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On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 11:15:32PM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
It's fine with me. I've been unhappy with this approach for a
long time, and it'd be great to get rid of that ugly union. The
only reason I didn't change it was that I didn't have an idea I
was really happy with. What's the plan?
There are several `plans' in the back of my mind. I've yet to
seriously think through their relative merits:
1. Forget the whole thing. Just let each command allocate the data
it needs on the heap, and keep track of what variable it belongs
to.
2. Have a generic (void *) pointer instead of the union. Commands
will still be required to allocate and deallocate the memory, but
the pointer keeps track of the variable to which they refer.
3. As above, but have each command register a function to allocate
and de-allocate the memory. Some lower level of PSPP (which I'll
call the `allocator') will call these functions as appropriate.
The allocator will need to provide an interface which commands
will use to declare which variables are of interest.
No 3 requires more work to begin with, but will probably pay off as
more commands are added (provided I get the model sufficiently general
to cater for most of the commands). This option also provides the
opportunity for statistics to be persisted between commands.
I might be able to work this in with the optimisation framework I'm
doing. As always however, the question is how much investment should
we be prepared to put in before getting a return. Hopefully I'll be
able to come up with a reasonable compromise.
J'
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- struct variable definition (in var.h), John Darrington, 2004/11/08
- Re: struct variable definition (in var.h), Ben Pfaff, 2004/11/08
- Re: struct variable definition (in var.h),
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- Re: struct variable definition (in var.h), Ben Pfaff, 2004/11/09
- Re: struct variable definition (in var.h), John Darrington, 2004/11/09
- Re: struct variable definition (in var.h), Ben Pfaff, 2004/11/09
- Re: struct variable definition (in var.h), Ben Pfaff, 2004/11/10