[Cdk-user] anyone using nonotify?

[Egon W. <ego...@gm...>]

Hi all,

originally the nonotify classes were faster, because they did not care
about sending around update change events...

However, there was a bug somewhere deep that made it possible to still
get data classes, because the nonotify instances inherited from the
data classes. Moreover, it turns out that the implementation is not as
fast as it used to be, and even seems slower than the data classes
(though I do not entirely understant why):

http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/2011/07/data-nonotify-or-silent.html

I created a new module called 'silent', which does effectively the
same as the nonotify module, but does not inherit from the data
module. Both are still a drop in replacement, but the new 'silent'
module even more than the nonotify module.

Now, given the performance regression of nonotify and the bug, I would
like to replace nonotify completely by 'silent' in the CDK 1.4.x
series.

But, since that branch is basically in freeze, we do not take API
changes lightly. Particularly not removing a whole API (though
replaced by another).

Therefore, I am consulting the user community about who is using the
nonotify module, and who uses the API beyond the
NoNotificationChemObject builder. If you do, please shout out if the
nonotify module is critical to your environment.

In the next days (maybe even tonight) I hope to have some more
elaborate performance statistics, in addition to that in my log
already.

Egon

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