Re: Status of plperl inter-sp calling

On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 01:05:40PM -0800, David E. Wheeler wrote:
> On Jan 5, 2010, at 12:59 PM, Tim Bunce wrote:
> 
> > So you're suggesting SP::foo(...) _always_ executes foo(...) via bunch
> > of spi_* calls. Umm. I thought performance was a major driving factor.
> > Sounds like you're more keen on syntactic sugar.
> 
> I'm saying do both. Make the cached version the one that will be used
> most often, but make available a second version that doesn't cache so
> that you get the sugar and the polymorphic dispatch. Such would only
> have to be used in cases where there is more than one function that
> takes the same number of arguments. The rest of the time -- most of
> the time, that is -- one can use the cached version.

I think I have a best-of-both solution. E-mail to follow...

Tim.