[Glass] Should I be worried about symbols lookup performance?

[Dale Henrichs via Glass]

On 03/31/2015 10:57 AM, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:
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> On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 2:20 PM, Dale Henrichs via Glass 
> <glass at lists.gemtalksystems.com 
> <mailto:glass at lists.gemtalksystems.com>> wrote:
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>     In 3.3 we will be providing a canonicalization framework that
>     would provide support for doing your own conflict canonicalization
>     at which time you would switch to the StringkeyValueDictionary
>     approach...
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> That would be nice because I would like to take a similar approach 
> with dates.... I have TONS of equal dates (spread in many different 
> collections) that I would not care to manage them as #==  ...
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> BTW...I thought a regular Date would fit as immediate object but 
> re-watching James video about immediate objects, it doesn't seem the 
> case. Wouldn't it be interesting a SmallDate (if necessary) which 
> would be immutable and immediate? may this be useful? most financial 
> apps have tons of dates...
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Yes, SmallDate was one of the ideas that was thrown around, but then the 
canonicalization framework approach was chosen because it could handle a 
broader range of classes, including Dates ...

Dale
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