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From: preston@LL.MIT.EDU (Steven Preston)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: speed of access methods vs. object_getInstanceVar
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Date: 11 Jan 91 18:39:16 GMT
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scott@mcs-server.gac.edu (Scott Hess) writes:
> The moral of the story?  Use accessor methods.  In most cases, they
> are not that slow if they are used enough - if they aren't used enough
> to stay in the cache, you probably shouldn't be worrying that much about
> a couple cycles, because it won't add up.

Actually, as I understand it, methods get added to a cache, but are
never removed.  The cache size is expanded (doubled) whenever it
becomes 3/4 full, but the cache is never contracted.