[LLVMdev] Extending AsmPrinter

[Chris Lattner]

On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, David Greene wrote:
>>> what you're
>>> getting at here.  All buffering necessarily has some overhead.
>>
>> Buffering has overhead from copying data around.  It doesn't matter
>> whether you do in by using stdio buffering or by building your own
>> buffers to avoid virtual method overhead.
>
> Sure.  But that has nothing to do with iostreams _per_se_.

I'm aware of that.

> Now, if I were to redesign iostreams, I would try to turn that dynamic
> polymorphism into static polymorphism.  I think the ability to switch
> streambufs at runtime is hardly ever used, so we really don't need virtual
> calls.

Right.

Overall, go ahead and design your solution.  Instead of making abstract 
arguments we can evaluate the final product and see if it is suitable for 
wider-spread use in LLVM.

-Chris

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