Yeah I realized that it was in the merge commit but not the actual commit.
Sorry for the confusion.


On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Tobias Pietzsch <pietz...@mpi-cbg.de>wrote:

> Hi Mark
>
> Ok, if it doesn't harm performance it's fine with me. I had missed the
> note in the merge commit...
>
> best regards,
> Tobias
>
> On Jul 8, 2013, at 3:46 PM, Mark Hiner <hi...@wisc.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi Tobias,
>
> The 
> SCIFIOCell<https://github.com/scifio/scifio/blob/master/scifio/src/main/java/io/scif/img/cell/SCIFIOCell.java>class
>  needs to be serializable to allow the library we're using to persist
> opened cells to disk, and thus its superclass(es) needs to be serializable
> with non-final fields.
>
> The only potential alternative I can think of would be to fully duplicate
> AbstractCell's fields and logic in SCIFIOCell... but that would still
> require the ArrayDataAccess to be serializable (do you see that as a
> potential problem, or only AbstractCell?).
>
> In the merge 
> commit<https://github.com/imagej/imglib/commit/7bc7dde9b095d6e3544d5f781716c0dc06de439b>I
>  mentioned we ran the PerformanceBenchmark with/without implementing
> Serializable and saw no difference. We thought that was sufficient for
> merging the changes, but I'm sorry if we circumvented discussion.
>
> If there are other tests you'd like to see run, or would like me to
> investigate duplicating AbstractCell's code, let me know.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Tobias Pietzsch <pietz...@mpi-cbg.de>wrote:
>
>> Hi Mark,
>>
>> we just noticed the merge of the cell-serialization branch, that makes
>> AbstractCell Serializable and therefore final field non-final.
>> Actually Stephan Saalfeld noticed, I would have missed it probably. It
>> would be nice if such changes could be discussed before they are merged to
>> master.
>> Did you do any tests to evaluate the performance impact of un-finalizing
>> the fields.
>> What is this needed for and are there other alternatives to achieve it
>> instead of making AbstractCell Serializable.
>>
>> best regards,
>> Tobias
>
>
>
>
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