+1
Also need to check these classes with lots of static utility methods:
IgniteUtils and X.
On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 11:03 AM, Vladimir Ozerov <voze...@gridgain.com>
wrote:
> Igniters,
>
> This is about our infamous *GridFunc *class. I suggest to deprecate it and
> strongly discourage any usage of any method from it.
>
> *Motivation:*
> Currently this class contains ~170 methods. Lots of this methods have poor
> performance characteristics or broken semantics.
> - Lots of collection manipulation methods are broken. You can easily loose
> O(1) or O(log N) and have O(N). You can easily loose Set semantics - merge
> two sets and this is not a set anymore. Etc, etc.. This is a nightmare. +
> you allocate garbage.
> - Some methods operate on varags while we always need no more than one
> element -> unnecessary allocations.
>
> But as these methods are convenient to use, developers tend to use them
> without understanding of implications. As our product is
> performance-sensitive, we certainly should avoid this.
>
> For example, here is a code snippet from cache IO manager:
>
> if (!F.exist(F.nodeIds(nodes), F0.not(F.contains(leftIds)))) {
>
> ...
>
> }
>
>
> And how do you think, what is "nodes" variable? Here it is:
>
> F.view(F.viewReadOnly(ids, U.id2Node(ctx), p), F.notNull())
>
>
> WTF? We *MUST* stop that.
>
> *Proposal:*
> 1) Deprecate this class.
> 2) Move several useful and safe methods (like F.eq()) to separate
> specialized utility classes.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Vladimir.
>
