On Oct 10, 2011, at 5:13 AM, Quildreen Motta wrote:
> By specs, a new instance is created and passed as the `thisObject' for the
> constructor function anytime that function is called with the `new' operator.
> It could be optimised as long as that object is not used.
Indeed top engines (tm) do optimize away this specified new object if it's not
used.
/be
>
> ---
> function Point(x, y) {
> this.x = x
> this.y = y
> console.log(this)
> return { x: x, y: y }
> }
> new Point(1, 1) instanceof Point
> // => false
> ---
>
> This can't be optimised because the `this' object is used. A more real-world
> use case would be, however:
>
> ---
> function Point(x, y) {
> if (!(this instanceof Point)) return new Point(x, y)
> this.x = x
> this.y = y
> }
> Point(1, 2) instanceof Point
> // => true
> new Point(1, 2) instanceof Point
> // => true
> ---
>
> Not sure how engines optimise that particular case, I'm not much familiar
> with JIT techniques either :3
>
> 2011/10/10 Axel Rauschmayer <[email protected]>
> Right. Does that prevent an instance from being created? But it shouldn’t be
> hard to let a compiler perform that kind of optimization.
>
> On Oct 10, 2011, at 13:58 , Quildreen Motta wrote:
>
>> We already get factory constructors by default -- by returning an object
>> from the constructor function.
>>
>> 2011/10/10 Axel Rauschmayer <[email protected]>
>> In many ways, Dart feels *less* versatile than ECMAScript.next. However,
>> there are two ideas that would make a nice addition to class literals:
>>
>> - Named constructors: Without overloading, you need a way to distinguish
>> constructors:
>> new Point.zero()
>> - Factory constructors: are a way to mark constructors so that no instance
>> is produced automatically. Then you can return cached instances or instances
>> of a subclasses.
>>
>> Details: http://www.dartlang.org/articles/idiomatic-dart/
>>
>> --
>> Dr. Axel Rauschmayer
>>
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>> twitter.com/rauschma
>>
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>> blog: 2ality.com
>>
>>
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>
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