Fast Nodes

[Tobias McNulty]

I am trying to implement a custom Element class to speed access to 
its children.  For example, I have a huge array of long ints, and it 
would be very inefficient to store these all in their own Element 
class as a true child.

So, I want to customize Element and provide functions that access the 
array directly.  One possibility would be implementing the 
NodeIterator interface to make nextNode() return the same node each 
time, but increment an internal iterator in the parent Element so 
that the next time the value of the Element is accessed, it returns 
the next entry in the array.

I heard bits and pieces about "fast nodes" and "Deferred" classes. 
Would these help under this situation?  What exactly are they/do they 
do, and where can I find more information about them?  The only 
documentation I found was very sparse.

Thanks in advance,
Toby
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Tobias McNulty
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