Ticket #2138 (new deprecation)

Opened 11 years ago

Deprecate unnecessary NameSpace methods

Reported by: whiteknight Owned by:
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Component: none Version: master
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Description

I have removed a few unnecessary method calls in src/oo.c that were eating up significant performance (coretest time on my system dropped from ~4:40 to ~3:40 by removing them). Now, I think the following methods on NameSpace are unused and should probably be deprecated/removed:

  • set_class
  • get_associated_methods
  • get_associated_vtable_methods

Removing these methods also helps work towards decoupling Class and NameSpace PMC types, which is a goal several devs have. These methods are typically for internal use and are not typically used by users of Parrot directly, so I suspect we do not need to offer an alternative to any of these things

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