[Biococoa-dev] BCSequenceFactory

[Alexander Griekspoor]

>  And from Alex:
>
>
>  Very nice John, also very compact! Although a possibility to use the 
> loopcounter object, I wouldn't do it here as it spreads the code and 
> makes t more complicated to understand. But perhaps if the loopcounter 
> is a shared object and it would thus involve only one line of code 
> (and no alloc inits), it could still me a nice idea. I leave that up 
> to you... John, just from curiosity, how much faster is doing this the 
> core foundation way instead of cocoa.
>
> Okay, loopCounter isn’t an object.  It’s basically an integer type 
> that will change according to however Apple defines an integer – your 
> code will compile appropriately even if Apple decides to define 
> integers as 128-bit vectors at some point in the future.  The speedups 
> I was seeing in this code compared to object enumerators was somewhere 
> around 2-3X, depending on the context.  Given that we have to loop 
> through 3 sequences, this will probably be significant.
>
Oh, sorry, I meant Koen's suggestion to use the BCSymbolCounter not the 
CFIndex loopcounter.
The last line (just from curiosity...) is a non-related question about 
the CF usage. I fully understand that an enumerator is slower than 
looping through an array by hand, my question is however would:
    CFIndex loopCounter;
   for ( loopCounter = 0 ; loopCounter < aLimit  ; loopCounter++ ) {
             aSymbol = (BCSymbol *)CFArrayGetValueAtIndex( (CFArrayRef) 
theContents, loopCounter);
             if ( aSymbol == nullSymbol )
                 altCount++;
      }

be really faster than the cocoa equivalent:
   int loopCounter;
   for ( loopCounter = 0 ; loopCounter < aLimit  ; loopCounter++ ) {
             aSymbol = [theContents objectAtIndex: loopCounter];
             if ( aSymbol == nullSymbol )
                 altCount++;
      }

I have my doubts.... (and it definitely looks better!)
Cheers,
Alex


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