Re: Speed of interfaces vs inheritance
On Dec 30 2006, 7:07 pm, Chris <spam_me_...@goaway.com> wrote:
In a particularly time-critical part of my app I need to call a method
on an external class in a tight loop. The class can be different in
different contexts. I've got two choices: create an interface and have
the various different classes implement it, or create an abstract class
and have the various different classes extend it.
I seem to recall, in years past, that the interface approach was slower.
Is this still the case?
(In this particular situation, either approach works fine, though I
personally like the interface approach better).
The other advice about testing instead of guessing is the most
important one to follow .
Aside from that, if your design choice of ABC or Interface causes such
a performance problem, then maybe there's another design approach.
Tell Don't Ask....
Instead of your code doing the loop and worrying about performance,
Tell the two other classes to do the loop for you.
so, instead of
class Client {
public void run() {
HttpServer h = new HttpServer();
for (int i = 0; i < 65000; i++ {
h.doSomething();
}
}
we have....
class Client {
public void run() {
HttpServer h = new HttpServer();
h.doSomething(); // for loop logic moved into HttpServer
}
}
Andrew
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