Re: [Oorexx-devel] Native API packages and scaling

2008-07-26 Thread Rick McGuire
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Mark Miesfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 3:09 AM, Rick McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> They will scale very well. Once the package is loaded, > > That is one of the things I was thinking about, the actual loading of > the package. W

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Native API packages and scaling

2008-07-26 Thread Mark Miesfeld
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 3:09 AM, Rick McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > They will scale very well. Once the package is loaded, That is one of the things I was thinking about, the actual loading of the package. What happens if you have method entry table of say 357 items as opposed to 37? > t

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Native API packages and scaling

2008-07-26 Thread Rick McGuire
They will scale very well. Once the package is loaded, the methods/routines are loaded into hash tables so the searches will be very fast. Much faster in fact than the old mechanism that required an IPC and a linear table search. Any for methods, since they only get added to the method dictionar

[Oorexx-devel] Native API packages and scaling

2008-07-25 Thread Mark Miesfeld
Hi Rick, Have you given any thought to how well package libraries will scale? On how large a RexxMethodEntry array could be / should be? I'm mostly just fooling with ooDialog now, thinking about it. But I think the same thing would apply to RexxGTK. A full featured GUI package could have a lot