tk@bonnie.UUCP (Tom Kirk) (02/16/86)
Can anyone comment on experience with using the Univ. or Maryland
implementation of flavors in their variation of Franz Opus 38.91
versus the MIT flavors implementation distributed with Opus 38.92?
I have a choice of which to use, so I'm interested in finding support
for favoring one over the other. Specific considerations include:
1) Efficiency. I'm aware that the UofM flavors has support in the
franz kernel for method selection. Is the overhead of method
selection large enough (in general) that this an important
improvement?
2) Implementation. MIT flavors are implemented using closures;
Maryland's flavors were implemented using hunks. So what?
Am I missing anything?
3) Generality. the MIT implementation seem to be a little more
general, though I expect I wouldn't miss many of its features if
they weren't there. On the other hand...
Any experience with either (or both) of these implementations that you
can share would be appreciated. I'm working with both before I decide
on one or the other, so if you have any information/opinions that
would help me with the decision I'd be glad to hear them. Thanks.
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Tom Kirk
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