The process for looking up snippets is not a single reflection operation, but a series of reflection operations. Some of the operations are cached in production mode.
However, as a matter of strongly typed style, I like DispatchSnippets because you know what you are getting. On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Timothy Perrett <timo...@getintheloop.eu>wrote: > > > Hey Marius, > > Thanks for the critical feedback :-) > > I have no benchmarks to speak of, just pouring out my general understanding > onto my blog - I do remember DPP saying some time ago that DispatchSnippets > were really the way to go for most things of any serious implementation. > > Cheers, Tim > > On 20/07/2009 17:12, "marius d." <marius.dan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Good article but do you have some concrete benchmarks between Snippet > > and DispatchSnippet? In modern JVM memory allocation is pretty cheap > > due to heap preparation JVM makes and reflection invocation doesn't > > bring too much overhead ... not anymore. > > > > The article seams to present the two from an optimization perspective > > but I don;t see much optimization here. Of course DispatchSnippet > > invocation is faster but the question is how much. And for say > > thousands of concurrent requests per cluster node I have the feeling > > that the delta is not that significant. Furthermore these deltas > > become totally negligible when during a request life cycle we're > > hitting DB-s. remote services etc. > > > > Personally I don't really agree regular snippets should be used in Dev > > mode only, well not until I see some compelling numbers. > > > > > > > > -- Lift, the simply functional web framework http://liftweb.net Beginning Scala http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890 Follow me: http://twitter.com/dpp Git some: http://github.com/dpp --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to liftweb@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
