Re: [Rd] cache most-recent dispatch

2013-07-02 Thread Valerie Obenchain
Thanks for the background and suggestions. Valerie On 07/02/2013 08:41 AM, John Chambers wrote: It's hard to see how repeated dispatch on the same classes can be that slow, _if_ the function being called each time is itself doing some substantial work. The first call (in a session) with a par

Re: [Rd] cache most-recent dispatch

2013-07-02 Thread John Chambers
It's hard to see how repeated dispatch on the same classes can be that slow, _if_ the function being called each time is itself doing some substantial work. The first call (in a session) with a particular signature searches for inherited methods and stores the method found in a table. The fol

Re: [Rd] cache most-recent dispatch

2013-07-01 Thread Hervé Pagès
Hi Val, [off list... I don't want to compromise your chances to start a constructive discussion ;-)] Thanks for reporting this. Just wanted to mention that the reason I think the situation is worst when you use the paste() generic defined in BiocGenerics than when you make paste() a generic with