Silly function call lookup stuff?

Lucas Lemmens llemmens at gmx.net
Tue Sep 27 18:28:34 EDT 2005


On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 22:41:22 +0200, Fredrik Lundh wrote:

> Lucas Lemmens wrote:
> 
>> Why isn't the result of the first function-lookup cached so that
>> following function calls don't need to do the function-lookup at all?
>>
>> And if the context changes (an import-statement say) reset the cached
>> 'function-lookups'.
> 
> import isn't the only way for the "context" to change.  how many other
> ways can you think of ?

So myLocalFunc = hisRemoteFunc may break if you're not carefull you mean.
If not then there's room for improvement.

> 
>> This way any function would only need to be looked up once.
> 
> you haven't really thought this over, have you?
> 
> </F>

You haven't really answered my questions have you?
L.





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