[GemStone-Smalltalk] What should the species of a Reduced Conflict collection be?

[Paul Baumann]

A GS post? The list still lives!

IMO, the result should not be an RcKeyValueDictionary. Look at #speciesForSelect for other examples (CanonStringDict, RcIdentityBag, RcQueue, Repository, UserProfile, and any subclasses).

A worthy fight, but vendors don't like to change existing code even if the argument is won. It is Smalltalk, just implement what you need. For example, the Efficient GemStone Enumeration framework now implements methods like #arraySelect: as a way to gather results into an efficient form. Arguing for each of hundreds of optimizations would have been a waste of time. I've been there too many times. The GemStone release model is outdated, but is convenient for legacy customers that value a painless upgrade and are not too sensitive about inefficiencies. Once you go the route of fixing problems yourself then it is actually a blessing that vendors don't change code.

GS still implements #selectValuesAsArray: but it is commented as being obsolete in GemStone 5.0. You might use #selectValuesAsArray: until it is removed. You could add RcKeyValueDictionary>>speciesForSelect to answer Dictionary. You could implement your own.

Paul Baumann


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Subject: [GemStone-Smalltalk] What should the species of a Reduced Conflict collection be?

We had a customer inquiry about the species of a RcKeyValueDictionary. We all realize that the species of a collection should be as close as possible to the receiver's class. Obvious exceptions are Interval for which one cannot generally have a selection subset that is also an Interval and weak collections for which a selection subset should not be weak.

Should the reduced conflict aspect of a collection also be dropped when doing a select?
Conversely, in what scenario would one want to preserve the reduced conflict aspect when doing a select?




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