[DGD] FLS

[Raymond Jennings]

At any rate you should worry about correctness before you worry about
efficiency.

Get it working right, then worry about optimizing

On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 11:36 PM, Felix A. Croes <felix at dworkin.nl> wrote:

> Blain <blain20 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I implemented the this_user idea in the kernellib's TLS implementation,
> but
> > there was no easy way to tell if the setting corresponding to a given
> frame
> > is expired.  So thus the FLS idea was born.
> >
> > If DGD could supply a null element before the first arg, all else could
> be
> > handled by the lib.  The current klib's implementation of TLS could also
> be
> > made to use this instead of having to create wrappers for entry-level
> > functions in driver.c to basically do the same thing (except with only
> > frame 0).
>
> This_player() functionality has been implemented entirely in LPC before,
> without using FLS or even TLS, and that implementation was even more
> efficient than what you described since it doesn't involve looping
> over frames.  I see no reason to hack DGD for it.
>
> Regards,
> Felix Croes
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