!Broker ???

yssaril · 06-26-2009

just saw http://www.wowinterface.com/download...22-Broker.html and wondering what the hell does it do

OrionShock · 06-26-2009

I smell a fork of LDB ... rather interesting.

Tekkub · 06-26-2009

"!"

*sigh*

Torhal · 06-26-2009

Quote:

Originally Posted by yssaril

just saw http://www.wowinterface.com/download...22-Broker.html and wondering what the hell does it do

Same. The description is a bit...ambiguous...

Tekkub · 06-26-2009

It replaces a function call on every index lookup of a DO with a direct table lookup. That makes it faster, but also forces tables to be created that *may* not have (but most likely were), and it forces LDB to make an extra table for every single DO. I didn't make LDB that way in the first place because having a single metatable makes it trivially easy to upgrade the lib inline (you just tweak that one table and every DO gets the update), and it saves memory, at the cost of a tiny bit of performance when performing direct lookups (instead of using callback args, which you should be for the mass majority of stuff).

Long and the short of it... the performance gain is minimal, if you are seeing an impact from it, your display is probably doing something very wrong.

My question is, why the hell didn't he just submit a patch and/or find out why I designed LDB the way I did? I had my reasons not to implement it the way he did.

Elkano · 06-26-2009

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tekkub

My question is, why the hell didn't he just submit a patch and/or find out why I designed LDB the way I did? I had my reasons not to implement it the way he did.

ähm... isn't most of the code still the way I did it?

Tekkub · 06-26-2009

ahm, I dunno ^^

Arrowmaster · 06-26-2009

LDB isn't open source is it? Just have it removed if its that shitty.

Squeeg · 06-27-2009

*sad*

06-26-2009	#1
yssaril Hero Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 777	!Broker ??? just saw http://www.wowinterface.com/download...22-Broker.html and wondering what the hell does it do

06-26-2009	#2
OrionShock Legendary Member Join Date: May 2006 Location: Arizona Posts: 3,787	Re: !Broker ??? I smell a fork of LDB ... rather interesting. __________________ Author of GuildCraft, SickOfClickingDailies, CursorCooldown, Broken_LFD WoWAce Addon List WoWInterface Addon List "I was there in the beginning... and things were very different back then" --An Echo from a time before.

06-26-2009	#3
Tekkub Wiki Master Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 5,085	Re: !Broker ??? "!" sigh

06-26-2009	#5
Tekkub Wiki Master Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 5,085	Re: !Broker ??? It replaces a function call on every index lookup of a DO with a direct table lookup. That makes it faster, but also forces tables to be created that may not have (but most likely were), and it forces LDB to make an extra table for every single DO. I didn't make LDB that way in the first place because having a single metatable makes it trivially easy to upgrade the lib inline (you just tweak that one table and every DO gets the update), and it saves memory, at the cost of a tiny bit of performance when performing direct lookups (instead of using callback args, which you should be for the mass majority of stuff). Long and the short of it... the performance gain is minimal, if you are seeing an impact from it, your display is probably doing something very wrong. My question is, why the hell didn't he just submit a patch and/or find out why I designed LDB the way I did? I had my reasons not to implement it the way he did.

06-26-2009	#7
Tekkub Wiki Master Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 5,085	Re: !Broker ??? ahm, I dunno ^^

06-26-2009	#8
Arrowmaster Hero Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 866	Re: !Broker ??? LDB isn't open source is it? Just have it removed if its that shitty.

06-27-2009	#9
Squeeg Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 314	Re: !Broker ??? sad __________________ English doesn't borrow from other languages. It follows them down dark alleys, knocks them over, and goes through their pockets for loose grammar. * List of addons using LDB * *Skin wowace/CF*

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