Re: [Vala] Questions about vapi generation and testing

[Damián Nohales <damiannohales gmail com>]

El 05/10/11 22:07, bsquared escribió:
> Luca Bruno<lethalman88 gmail com>  writes:
>
> > On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 6:30 PM, bsquared<bwcode4u gmail com>  wrote:
> >
> > > 1.  Is it necessary/recommended to specialize a generic?
> > >     The generated vapi has lists without specialization, and these work
> > >     fine in the tests.
> > >     public GLib.SList list_databases ();
> > >     public GLib.SList<string>  list_databases ();
> >
> > The latter obviously.
> I ask because in the gir the elements are generic, and the compiler does
> not issue warnings.
>
> > > 2. What can I do to optimize the generated c code in my tests?
> > >    The generated code is 4x the size of original test code
> > >    (test-couchdb-glib.c) as is the executable.
> >
> > For the C code, nothing. About the executable, optimize with -O3 (or -Os).
> I was thinking there may be some kind of best practice to minimize the
> number of temp vars in the generated code.

No, I don't think so, those temp variables appear because the manner in 
which the Vala generate the code, the way to generate less code is to 
modify the Vala compiler but not to optimizing your Vapi.

You should not need to expect that Vala compiler generates a C code as 
if you had written by hand as you should not expect the C compiler do 
the same with the assembly code generated.

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