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  • H honey the codewitch

    based on my experience, I'd take that bet.

    When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.

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    Super Lloyd
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    Oops forget my previous example, I was confused.. the debug assembly code does indeed look atrocious... Gotta try to check the release version

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    • H honey the codewitch

      there's a call in there that looks suspicious. I'd need to see the IL, not the asm.

      When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.

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      Super Lloyd
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      release code atrocious too...

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        Oops forget my previous example, I was confused.. the debug assembly code does indeed look atrocious... Gotta try to check the release version

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        honey the codewitch
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        if there's a call in the resulting asm I'd need to see the IL to find out where it leads. I think the "is" comparison would result in a call to the CLR to type check

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          release code atrocious too...

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          honey the codewitch
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          yep. The jitter can only do so much with peephole optimization. That's the ugly truth. Still, the IL will tell the tale. ILDASM or visual studio's decompile option should be able to grab it.

          When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.

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          • H honey the codewitch

            there's a call in there that looks suspicious. I'd need to see the IL, not the asm.

            When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.

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            Super Lloyd
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            well.. 1. I was saying the compiler will remove obvious dead end code, make sense to check the assembly 2. what interesting is not the generic method's IL, but the concrete A or A code, which I have no clue where to see at any rate, assembly code looks bad.... :(

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            • S Super Lloyd

              well.. 1. I was saying the compiler will remove obvious dead end code, make sense to check the assembly 2. what interesting is not the generic method's IL, but the concrete A or A code, which I have no clue where to see at any rate, assembly code looks bad.... :(

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              honey the codewitch
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              if i can see where that CALL in the asm leads i'd know, but viewing the IL is the only realistic way to tell where it leads

              When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.

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              • S Super Lloyd

                well.. 1. I was saying the compiler will remove obvious dead end code, make sense to check the assembly 2. what interesting is not the generic method's IL, but the concrete A or A code, which I have no clue where to see at any rate, assembly code looks bad.... :(

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                honey the codewitch
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                you know what? I'm still kind of curious about this but I think I'm scrapping the specialization. I'm not sure what I'm going to do about maintenance though. =( This will almost double the code size.

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                • H honey the codewitch

                  i like message/signal based systems but most runtimes don't include some basics that should be "primitives/intrinsics" or otherwise first class, like thread safe priority queues and circular buffers and such. At the very least they should be runtime libraries provided with the base framework. But I really think if Alan Kay had wanted a message based programming environment it should have been done somewhat differently than OOP. think something a bit more along lines of parallel programming style constructs and the like, except instead of dealing with iterations of loops you're dealing with signalling. honestly, it's easy enough to create a domain-specific set of "language extension" style headers in C++ to enable this. I love C++ for that. about 1/3 of the language is the headers and because of the way the preprocessor and template system works you can create your own pseudo language constructs. There's nothing else like it in major programming languages but I really wish their was.

                  When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.

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                  TNCaver
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                  Speaking of Alan Kay and C++...

                  Quote:

                  I made up the term 'object-oriented', and I can tell you I didn't have C++ in mind. -- Alan Kay, OOPSLA '97

                  :-D

                  If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.

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                  • T TNCaver

                    Speaking of Alan Kay and C++...

                    Quote:

                    I made up the term 'object-oriented', and I can tell you I didn't have C++ in mind. -- Alan Kay, OOPSLA '97

                    :-D

                    If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.

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                    honey the codewitch
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                    if you're using OOP as your primary paradigm in C++ you're almost certainly Doing It Wrong(TM) However, C++ is a truly multi-paradigm language and is fully capable of doing OOP programming. But like I said, if Kay had messaging in mind, OOP probably wasn't the way to go. You can implement a signal passing psuedo language extension in C++ to elegantly handle messaging passing. You can implement an OOP system too, but I wouldn't recommend that.

                    When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.

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                    • H honey the codewitch

                      if i can see where that CALL in the asm leads i'd know, but viewing the IL is the only realistic way to tell where it leads

                      When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.

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                      Super Lloyd
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                      Generic Do() method's IL:

                      .method public hidebysig instance void Do(!T 'value') cil managed
                      {
                      // Code size 58 (0x3a)
                      .maxstack 2
                      .locals init ([0] int32 intV,
                      [1] bool V_1)
                      IL_0000: nop
                      IL_0001: ldarg.1
                      IL_0002: box !T
                      IL_0007: isinst [mscorlib]System.Int32
                      IL_000c: brfalse.s IL_0022
                      IL_000e: ldarg.1
                      IL_000f: box !T
                      IL_0014: isinst [mscorlib]System.Int32
                      IL_0019: unbox.any [mscorlib]System.Int32
                      IL_001e: stloc.0
                      IL_001f: ldc.i4.1
                      IL_0020: br.s IL_0023
                      IL_0022: ldc.i4.0
                      IL_0023: stloc.1
                      IL_0024: ldloc.1
                      IL_0025: brfalse.s IL_0031
                      IL_0027: ldarg.0
                      IL_0028: ldloc.0
                      IL_0029: call instance void class ConsoleApp1.A`1::Do(int32)
                      IL_002e: nop
                      IL_002f: br.s IL_0039
                      IL_0031: ldarg.0
                      IL_0032: ldarg.1
                      IL_0033: call instance void class ConsoleApp1.A`1::DoDefault(!0)
                      IL_0038: nop
                      IL_0039: ret
                      } // end of method A`1::Do

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                      • H honey the codewitch

                        you know what? I'm still kind of curious about this but I think I'm scrapping the specialization. I'm not sure what I'm going to do about maintenance though. =( This will almost double the code size.

                        When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.

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                        Super Lloyd
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                        Good luck hey ^^

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                        • S Super Lloyd

                          Generic Do() method's IL:

                          .method public hidebysig instance void Do(!T 'value') cil managed
                          {
                          // Code size 58 (0x3a)
                          .maxstack 2
                          .locals init ([0] int32 intV,
                          [1] bool V_1)
                          IL_0000: nop
                          IL_0001: ldarg.1
                          IL_0002: box !T
                          IL_0007: isinst [mscorlib]System.Int32
                          IL_000c: brfalse.s IL_0022
                          IL_000e: ldarg.1
                          IL_000f: box !T
                          IL_0014: isinst [mscorlib]System.Int32
                          IL_0019: unbox.any [mscorlib]System.Int32
                          IL_001e: stloc.0
                          IL_001f: ldc.i4.1
                          IL_0020: br.s IL_0023
                          IL_0022: ldc.i4.0
                          IL_0023: stloc.1
                          IL_0024: ldloc.1
                          IL_0025: brfalse.s IL_0031
                          IL_0027: ldarg.0
                          IL_0028: ldloc.0
                          IL_0029: call instance void class ConsoleApp1.A`1::Do(int32)
                          IL_002e: nop
                          IL_002f: br.s IL_0039
                          IL_0031: ldarg.0
                          IL_0032: ldarg.1
                          IL_0033: call instance void class ConsoleApp1.A`1::DoDefault(!0)
                          IL_0038: nop
                          IL_0039: ret
                          } // end of method A`1::Do

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                          honey the codewitch
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                          yep, that's a call to the runtime to do a type check. See isinst? i'll consider our bet a gentleman's bet =D

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                          • S Super Lloyd

                            Generic Do() method's IL:

                            .method public hidebysig instance void Do(!T 'value') cil managed
                            {
                            // Code size 58 (0x3a)
                            .maxstack 2
                            .locals init ([0] int32 intV,
                            [1] bool V_1)
                            IL_0000: nop
                            IL_0001: ldarg.1
                            IL_0002: box !T
                            IL_0007: isinst [mscorlib]System.Int32
                            IL_000c: brfalse.s IL_0022
                            IL_000e: ldarg.1
                            IL_000f: box !T
                            IL_0014: isinst [mscorlib]System.Int32
                            IL_0019: unbox.any [mscorlib]System.Int32
                            IL_001e: stloc.0
                            IL_001f: ldc.i4.1
                            IL_0020: br.s IL_0023
                            IL_0022: ldc.i4.0
                            IL_0023: stloc.1
                            IL_0024: ldloc.1
                            IL_0025: brfalse.s IL_0031
                            IL_0027: ldarg.0
                            IL_0028: ldloc.0
                            IL_0029: call instance void class ConsoleApp1.A`1::Do(int32)
                            IL_002e: nop
                            IL_002f: br.s IL_0039
                            IL_0031: ldarg.0
                            IL_0032: ldarg.1
                            IL_0033: call instance void class ConsoleApp1.A`1::DoDefault(!0)
                            IL_0038: nop
                            IL_0039: ret
                            } // end of method A`1::Do

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                            honey the codewitch
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                            adding ugh - it's not only doing that, it has to box the value first! i forgot about that. Ugh. It makes a copy of the int on the heap just to do a type check No. Just no. Moral of this story is do not trust the C# compiler to significantly optimize your code.

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                              adding ugh - it's not only doing that, it has to box the value first! i forgot about that. Ugh. It makes a copy of the int on the heap just to do a type check No. Just no. Moral of this story is do not trust the C# compiler to significantly optimize your code.

                              When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.

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                              Super Lloyd
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                              I have to say I am a little confused.. They have numerous intelligent blog about performance... They have fair performance comparison against C++ code with well know perf test with many close call and sometimes better performance... Though when one occasionally check the IL or assembly it seems not really good... All of that leave me quite bewildered....

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                                I have to say I am a little confused.. They have numerous intelligent blog about performance... They have fair performance comparison against C++ code with well know perf test with many close call and sometimes better performance... Though when one occasionally check the IL or assembly it seems not really good... All of that leave me quite bewildered....

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                                honey the codewitch
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                                last i checked it's about 30% slower and that's according to their own benchmarks. I expect real world performance to be somewhat worse, if only because of the unconscious tendency to want to test the fast parts of the code. occasionally you get better performance because of the JITs ability to do smart register allocation but the performance difference between that and C++ is barely significant in virtually all cases, and it doesn't crop up as regularly as MS would perhaps suggest. There used to be some really good in depth articles about .NET performance that covered a lot of this stuff but as .NET has matured, it seems there are less of these today. I don't normally care about cycle counting, but I do when the code has to be tight. Here it does, in my case.

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                                  I have to say I am a little confused.. They have numerous intelligent blog about performance... They have fair performance comparison against C++ code with well know perf test with many close call and sometimes better performance... Though when one occasionally check the IL or assembly it seems not really good... All of that leave me quite bewildered....

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                                  honey the codewitch
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                                  In general I've found a lot of my old habits I picked up in the 80s and 90s before i had access to really smart C++ compilers have served me well under .NET. They say you don't have to be careful about heap allocation, and that's kind of true because of the way their garbage collected heap works, but it still costs. They claim the cost is "incrementing a pointer" - in reality that pointer gets incremented enough if forces the .NET host to do a garbage collection and reallocation which costs significantly. So basically all it's really doing is pushing the costs of each heap allocation down the road - and then "batches" the individual costs together when it does the mark, sweep and allocate. They do too much heap allocation in .NET IMO. the IEnumerator pattern is a big culprit but not as much as boxing. Boxing/Unboxing just floors me. That slams the heap. Fortunately the new reference types and stackalloc can alleviate this somewhat, but not nearly enough.

                                  When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.

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                                  • H honey the codewitch

                                    I've strongly considered it. I might eventually move, but I'm familiar with C#. Maybe if they had Haskell I would have moved already. Edit: Adding, one of the drawbacks of functional programming is lack of state, and some of these equations are so complicated that state is necessary for optimization and I wonder how a functional language will handle such a thing. Recomputing or doing lazy iteration over these algorithms is grossly impractical even if it's "correct"

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                                    Memoization might be useful for you. It's basically a way to cache function results with a given input in a dictionary and return the cached value instead of running the calculation again.

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                                      Memoization might be useful for you. It's basically a way to cache function results with a given input in a dictionary and return the cached value instead of running the calculation again.

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                                      honey the codewitch
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                                      yeah. in fact, I need to explore memoization more anyway for implementing a PEG parser.

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                                      • H honey the codewitch

                                        i never have. give me templates. or you may as well just give me something procedural. if i can't do generic programming i'm a sad honey bear. C# is barely adequate. And it's too object centric IMO. generics need to be able to do more. I want traits. I want the runtimes to do what i can make a C++ compiler do with templates. I probably just got the BAC up of this entire board saying that, but there it is.

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                                        I like object oriented programming. I view generics as just a limited and difficult-to-type variant of object oriented programming, with a bit of type recursion thrown in so it takes longer to compile. I've never run into object hierarchies that have the penguin-is-a-kind-of-bird-but-can't-fly problem in practice. I try to keep object hierarchies I create three layers deep or less. Five for template classes so I can use CRTP. I've got the visitor pattern if I really need it for aspect-oriented programming.

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                                          I like object oriented programming. I view generics as just a limited and difficult-to-type variant of object oriented programming, with a bit of type recursion thrown in so it takes longer to compile. I've never run into object hierarchies that have the penguin-is-a-kind-of-bird-but-can't-fly problem in practice. I try to keep object hierarchies I create three layers deep or less. Five for template classes so I can use CRTP. I've got the visitor pattern if I really need it for aspect-oriented programming.

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                                          honey the codewitch
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                                          that's fair. it sounds like you come from primarily an OO background based on how you view generics. You're not wrong or anything, i think it's just perspective. When I see a template or a generic i see GP and sometimes AOP potential, with object orientation being secondary because I'm used to looking at things through a C++ lens, and OO just isn't the dominant paradigm there. I go as deep as I need to and factor on a case by case. I know a lot of people have a lot of hard and fast rules, but I'm a bit more fluid, although I do try to avoid deep hierarchies as a rule. I'm currently working on a document object model that's deeper than I'd like, but DOMs are kind of their own beast. They're typically nested inheritance-wise to three deep and that's where mine is in 40% of it. The other 60% are Expression elements (binary,unary, etc) so those go deeper. like i said, case by case for me.

                                          When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.

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