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| From: | Richard Frith-Macdonald |
| Subject: | Re: Changes I've been thinking of... |
| Date: | Sat, 10 Oct 2009 07:22:32 +0100 |
On 9 Oct 2009, at 23:45, Fred Kiefer wrote:
David Chisnall schrieb:
Another example is that a lot of classes call NSDeallocateObject(self) rather than [super dealloc], which has a negligible performance impact but breaks any category that tries to replace NSObject's dealloc method.I never understood why we do this.
A lot of what looks like premature optimisation nowadays was benchmarked or profiled and found to be worthwhile on slower CPUs ten years ago. I can't believe that more than a few dozen cases of this particular issue exist anymore in GNUstep (perhaps I'll try grepping and fixing). I definitely think it should go (I hated the fact that it was totally pervasive in Cocotron when I looked at their code).
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