[Swift-devel] status of conversion of bug 30: making the xml intermediate form more XML-like

[Mihael Hategan]

On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 17:53 +0100, Ben Clifford wrote:
> My development code keeps values in DSHandle objects as much as possible.

That's what I would (and might have) argued for.

> 
> This is some additional runtime overhead (because the expression 1 + 2 now 
> creates three intermediate DSHandle objects, rather than evaluating the 
> expression as the Karajan level and wrapping at the end).

I think the best solution is to not use the normal karajan functions for
swift arithmetic.

> 
> However, in practice expressions are not used very much and so this 
> overhead is hopefully not excessively onerous. If it is, there is scope 
> for optimistion to happen at the xml->kml layer (as I'm doing with path 
> handling).
>