id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc,lang,patch,platform
2138,Deprecate unnecessary NameSpace methods,whiteknight,,"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",deprecation,new,normal,,none,master,medium,,,,,,