[Biococoa-dev] Sequence Structure

[Koen van der Drift]

On Jul 13, 2005, at 11:30 AM, Charles Parnot wrote:

> We should only do the caching for the immutable object. For the  
> mutable one, it does not make much sense. If the user needs the  
> symbol array all the time while changing the sequence string, AND  
> needs performance, the final application is doomed anyway ;-)

Agree :)
>

> Then caching on the immutable sequence is trivial. It can be done  
> in the accessor. To avoid memory issues, we could set an arbitrary  
> threshold above which no caching occurs.
>
> ABout the sequenceData ivar (probably better to keep the name a bit  
> longer, 'data' would really be too generic, in my opinion; and who  
> knows, maybe later we will need another 'xxxData' ivar), I would  
> type it to a NSMutableData in the interface. And then, in the init  
> method, create an NSData (we might need just one cast there). This  
> way, we won't get compiler warnings in the methods for the mutable  
> class (otherwise we would have to cast the NSData into an  
> NSMutableData in too many places).

I'll try that - I have some more time tonight.


>
> Have fun coding! BTW, we have to  solve the Xcode 2/2.1 issue.


I have recently switched to Tiger and Xcode 2.1, so not an issue for  
me anymore. I think I was the only one not yet on Tiger.


- Koen.