--- "Mark R. Diggory" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Prior to my changes last night "increment" was actually calculating the
> entire statistic. "getValue" was only returning the value of a precalculated
> property. The problem is that the cpu cycles need to be "spent" no matter the
> approach of full calculation in "increment" or "partial calc" in increment
> and "partial calc" in getValue. I think addVAlue is going to get called alot
> more than getValue, so I've optimized to reduce the amount of calculation
> going on in increment as much as possible. (it would be possible to maintain
> a boolean state about if "increment" has been called, this way calling
> getValue repeatedly will not result in repeatedly calculating the same
> statistical value over and over. I'll look into adding this.
Sorry to post-and-run, but I'm on a business trip this week. The above is
memoization, isn't it? Sounds like a good idea, especially for values that
take a lot of operations to compute.
Al
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Albert Davidson Chou
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