Is any way to ensure calls to fun stored as a (val...
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joelpedraza
07/11/2017, 4:10 PMIs any way to ensure calls to fun stored as a (val) class field are inlined? For example to pass in a comparator to a heap structure.
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diesieben07
07/11/2017, 4:14 PMjoelpedraza: Not sure what exactly you want to inline, could you post an example?
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karelpeeters
07/11/2017, 4:21 PMI think he wants to pass a funtion as a parameter to a class and then inline that in all of the methods of that class.
karelpeeters
07/11/2017, 4:23 PM@joelpedraza No this is not possible, the passed funtion is not known at compile time. The JVM can sometimes inline things like this, so performance shouldn't be that bad.
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joelpedraza
07/11/2017, 5:12 PM@karelpeeters In my microbenchmarks runtime was 4x slower, but yes I'm essentially looking for a way to inline a field, it would be possible if the fun was statically compiled
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diesieben07
07/11/2017, 5:38 PMIf it was statically known, you wouldn't need a field 😉