(Moved to R-devel) Niek,
Would you please provide the details on this test case, including your benchmarks, and what you are trying to achieve at the high-level? Thanks, Michael On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 4:55 AM, Niek Bouman <niek.bou...@keygene.com> wrote: > Dear R-core team, > > I was wondering whether you have any plans to improve the current > implementation of reference classes. > > Background: > For a new project we will have many mutable objects, and we therefore want to > use a construction like reference classes in this project. However, we > observed that the speed performance of our implementation (using reference > classes) for a simple test case is rather poor compared to a non-OOP > implementation. Further, turning the reference classes into R6classes (using > the R6 package) gave the best performance. As speed is an issue in our > project, this would for us be an important reason to use R6 classes instead > of reference classes. The drawback, of course, is that the R6 package is > developed by a single developer and that further development is therefore > less certain than if we would use reference classes, which are in the core. > Ideally we would like a system like R6 in the core of R. Are you planning to > support R6, or improve reference classes to be on par with (or better than) > R6 in terms of speed, in the core? > > Best regards, > Niek > > Keygene N.V. | P.O. Box 216 | 6700 AE Wageningen | The Netherlands > T (+31) 317 46 68 66 | F (+31) 317 42 49 39 | CoC. 09066631 | > http://www.keygene.com<http://www.keygene.com/> > > > [http://www.keygene.com/images/keygenegeneral.jpg]<http://www.keygene.com> > > Stay up-to-date! Subscribe to our bimonthly newsletter > here<http://www.keygene.com/newsletter> > > [http://www.keygene.com/images/linkedin-grey.png]<https://www.linkedin.com/company/63753?trk=tyah&trkInfo=tarId%3A1422354182032%2Ctas%3Akeygene%2Cidx%3A3-1-3> > [http://www.keygene.com/images/twitter-grey.png] > <https://twitter.com/KeyGeneInfo> > [http://www.keygene.com/images/facebook-grey.png] > <https://www.facebook.com/KeyGeneWageningen> > > The information contained in this message, and attachments if any, may be > privileged and/or confidential and is intended to be received only by persons > entitled to receive such information. Use of any part of this message and/or > its attachments if any, in any other way than as explicitly stated by the > sender is strictly prohibited. Should you receive this > message unintentionally please notify the sender immediately, and delete it > together with all attachments, if any. Thank you. The transmission of > messages and/or information via the Internet is not > secured and may be intercepted by third parties. KeyGene assumes no liability > for any damage caused by any unintentional disclosure and/or use of the > content of this message and attachments if any. > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > R-core list: https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-core ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
