On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 11:36, Dan Sugalski wrote:
Right now the master function in nci.c that figures out if we have a thunking function for a given function signature does a linear search looking for a match. This is pretty nasty and gets slower the more functions are in the search list. What we should do is change the code generator (as src/nci.c is generated) to build up a hash of signatures with the corresponding function pointer for much faster lookup.
Is there a particular hash lookup style you have in mind? If there's something similar in the code already, I can copy, paste, and modify the generator trivially.
You could look at what we do for class registration -- that code might be similar. I don't think we've got too much at the C level that messes around with parrot hashes yet, though.
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