Re: [Tm4j-developers] Suggestion regarding players

[Gerd M. <ge...@sm...>]

On Mon, 9 Jul 2001 09:37:35 +0100
"Kal Ahmed" <ka...@te...> wrote:

> Hi Gerd,
> 
> I don't know how I managed to miss this message ... sorry for the delay in
> replying.
> 
> I think that using a hashmap internally for Topic.rolesPlayed and
> Member.player attributes might be a useful thing to do, and as you note, it
> would enable a more convenient removeXXX() operation. However, it should be
> noted that from an XTM spec point of view, this would not be sufficient to
> meet the requirements to suppress duplicate players of roles in an
> association. Also, I wonder about the time and space overhead of the use of
> a HashMap in the in-memory implementation when the index would really only
> be used for removals.

Maybe you are right, since removals don't happen that often.
 
> So my position would be +1 to adding the suggested operations to the
> interface but -1 on using a HashMap for the in-memory implementation (I
> don't yet know enough about Ozone internals to determine the best course of
> action for that implementation).

Okay, +1 for adding the removeXXX() methods to the interface.

Best Regards,
Gerd

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