[PEAK] Trellis Update Blues...

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 11:55 AM 6/18/2008 +0300, Peter Damoc wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I took the dive today and updated the code to the new Trellis format.
>In the end it wasn't as bad as I thought it be from a code change 
>point of view.
>
>Unfortunately now I'm seeing an almost 10 fold decrease in the 
>performance of my code.
>Nothing is change except the trellis adaptation to the new API.
>Before change, using Trellis 0.6a3, I got something like 40 ms 
>execution of a drawing method. Now I'm getting 344 ms with 0.7a2.
>
>My trellis component is basically comprised of a dictionary 
>containing a series of measurements and a group of attrs and compute 
>attrs that use these measurements to output the drawing parameters. 
>(around 400 LOC)

Note, by the way, that if these drawing parameters are ONLY read from 
non-trellis code, you should use @maintain rather than @compute - 
compute does not cache its value except when it is depended upon by 
other trellis cells.