On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 11:11:08PM -0400, Doug Way wrote:
On Monday, June 28, 2004, at 09:10 PM, Ross Boylan wrote:
I'm looking for ways to speed up my application, which has gotten intolerably slow. It spends a lot of its time doing operations on DateAndTime objects, which are basically Brent Pinkney's implementation of the ANSI standard for squeak. However, I see he has made some changes since the version I got. See http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/1871
I notice that this class doesn't seem to have made it into the mainline image (3.6), though there is a TimeStamp class there. Aside from the fact that it has a different vocabulary, it doesn't have any associated concept of durations (e.g., a week), which I also need. There is at least one obvious functional difference: DateAndTime knows its offset from UTC, while TimeStamp doesn't. Not a must have feature for me.
(However, I see some Mar 2004 messages with fixes, that sort of give the impression it is in the main update stream...?)
Yes, the ANSI DateAndTime (Chronology) changes are in the current update stream (3.7beta). The current stable release (3.6) on squeak.org was released last fall, so it's not going to contain anything from this year. 3.7 final should be coming out within the next month or so.
- Doug
Good. Are those derived from Brent Pinkney's work, the general ANSIfication work, or something else?