Dear contributors, In the past, when you wanted to work with tasks or tags in GTG, depending on the method, you had to work either with the task/tag object or with the tid/tagname.
I realized after some experiment that playing with the objects directly is very expensive. Looking in a list of objects is *much* slower than looking in a list of Strings. As a consequence, since now, I suggest that, as much as possible, you use only the tid/tagname. If you create a method, try that that method take a tid/tagname as argument and return a tid/tagname. (of course, don't apply this blindly). As a rule of thumb, if you put objects in a list for whatever purpose, it should light a big warning sign ! It probably means than you have to use the tid/tagname instead. The req.get_task/get_tag methods are pretty cheap (access to a dictionary with Strings as keys) and, anyway, I discovered that a lot of functions can already be done without the object at all if you are consistent. In existing tag/task object, don't hesitate to port existing functions that does not respect that philosophy but should. (this work should take place in gtg-refactor branch). Thanks for all the fish, Lionel _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~gtg-contributors Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~gtg-contributors More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
