I'm worried about introducing yet more complexity into S5. You know that this is a big concern of mine.
What is the exact overhead for having entries in the child list for embedded properties? You need a contextual name, and you need the object. The list itself stores the position value. The EmbeddedProperty object stored in the Component could implement the "child list entry" interface and store its own contextual name (which would be constant for each kind of embedded property), so the only overhead would be the pointer to the EmbeddedProperty object in the list. This is greater than zero, so it wouldn't be "zero overhead", but it would let you treat properties and children in the nice and flexible way, and it's only a pointer's worth of overhead. Or it could be an index into something else instead of a native pointer and we could cap it at 32 bits or whatever if you're really trying to shave bits off there. Reed _______________________________________________ vos-d mailing list vos-d@interreality.org http://www.interreality.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vos-d
