Re: Introspection binary format comments

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Feb 27, 2005, at 7:26 PM, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote:

> 	2. the "memory" option: when a library is loaded, we create a special
> module object, derived from PyModule_Type, which contains an attribute
> getter (tp_getattro slot) that looks up, in runtime, types.  Hence the
> need for the hash table here.  So types aren't registered at module
> import, they are created on demand, as they're requested from the
> module.  A similar approach could be taken for loading methods on 
> demand
> for each object.

I'm thinking of a hybrid option for gtk2-perl --- at load time, find 
all the object types and register them as perl packages, but stop 
there.  Then, use perl's AUTOLOAD magic to support demand-binding and 
caching of methods as they are called by the application.  Still a 
load-time hit, but there are far more methods in the API than types.  
We'd have a hook in this process to create the hash table for ourselves 
if it didn't already exist.


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