[Mono-list] today's patch

[Ravi Pratap M]

Hey Miguel,

On Mon, 2001-10-22 at 01:57, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
>    Every time we are query for interfaces on a type T we would create
> an array of the interfaces and then scan it (I had a similar problem

	Yeah, I was wondering myself that it did seem like there was too much
overhead out there.


>    I think in this case we could do the same, we care about the output
> of the above routine as `Does it implement the interface or not', so I
> suggest that we change the above code to be:
> 
> 	if (TypeManager.Implements (expr_type, target_type))
> 		return new EmptyCast (expr, target_type);
> 	else
> 		return null;
> 
>     Then we can make `TypeManager.Implements' keep a static hashtable
> that caches the result.  You can see an example in
> expression.cs::Indexers class.


	Yes, this sounds much more sensible. I shall implement this as soon as
I am done with my shower etc :-)


	What are your thoughts on the attributes issue I sent you mail about ?


	Regards,


		Ravi


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