Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Re: 1.0?

[Ronald O. <ous...@ci...>]

On Wednesday, Jun 18, 2003, at 21:55 Europe/Amsterdam, Jack Jansen 
wrote:

>
> On woensdag, jun 18, 2003, at 20:21 Europe/Amsterdam, Ronald Oussoren 
> wrote:
>> We already build minimally initialized classes, the problem is that 
>> [NSBundle bundleForClass:] seems to be very expensive. That is at 
>> least what I remembered from the previous time this came up, I think 
>> bundleForClass did a lot of I/O for every class we look at. At the 
>> time there were more important issues, but I think this is the major 
>> technical issue with the bridge at the moment.
>
> How many bundles are we talking about, usually? Cocoa and the main 
> application bundle? If so, then could we keep those two handy, and use 
> [bundle classNamed: xxx] as a quick test to see whether the class is 
> in there?
>
> That does assume that classNamed: is cheaper than bundleForClass:.
It is worth testing if classNamed: is cheaper. If it is cheaper we can 
use this method instead of bundleForClass.

>
> I just saw that the NSBundleDidLoadNotification gives you the names of 
> all classes from the bundle. I think this won't help us because it 
> won't help us if the bundle was loaded before our stuff was 
> initialized, right?

I don't think that the noficiation is usefull, because of the 
limitation you mentioned.

Ronald