On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 09:16, Nicholas Clark wrote: > Does the structure change at runtime? (ie can one register new dynamically > loaded NCI helper code?)
If I understand what Dan wants, no. Unless the platform has a JIT that can generate stubs for all valid NCI signatures, it has to fall back to the compile-time structure of pointers to stub functions. > If not, a generated switch statement would work as well as a data structure, > surely? Depends on the compiler and how well it optimizes said switch statement. A good compiler could probably beat the hash, but overall I suspect the hash will work just fine almost everywhere. -- c
