Re: [gobo-eiffel-develop] Date/time formatting

[Eric B. <er...@go...>]

Colin Paul Adams wrote:
>>>>>> "Eric" == Eric Bezault <er...@go...> writes:
> 
>     Eric> I don't understand: why would you need to run an XSLT
>     Eric> transformation?  I'm just talking about putting the
>     Eric> formatting classes in a cluster in the xslt/xpath library,
>     Eric> not about using an XSLT transformation.
> 
> Well, I can do that, I guess. If that's what you prefer.

I don't know what I prefer yet. I've been put in front of a
fact with not prior notice (the date/time library now depends
on regexp and math) and I'm still trying to understand why
this was done and whether this was really needed.

One thing that bothers me is that it adds so many auxiliary
classes just for this formatting. And is the use of regexp
and math really necessary? One other thing that should be
considered when working on a small library like date/time
that can be used everywhere is to be careful not to create
too many temporary objects. This library can be use in a
system with no GC, or in a system already using a lot of
memory. In the latter case, reducing the load of work on
the GC may have a significant impact on performance.

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Eric Bezault
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