Re: Confusion about splitting classes to allow sharing of resources

m.a.stijnman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Hang Dog wrote:

m.a.stijnman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

probably should generate an error when the knot vectors are shared. 

I

imagine further that any spline that share a knot vector that is 

not

explicitly expanded (such as Splines for p and q) gets expanded 

with a

default value - or it might be better to require all splines to be
given a new value explicitely
before more points can be added.


Share the KnotVector class via reference counted pointers. If the
reference count is not one when adding a point to a curve then copy


the

KnotVector and replace the reference pointer in the curve with the 

copy.

I think you are confusing Curves and Splines here, but beyond that, it
does sound like a good idea to provide the functionality of splines
being allowed to split off with a local copy of the knotvector. I think
in this context it doesn't really apply though - it will make adding
points to each of a linked set of splines highly efficient and loose
the coupling in the process.


Alternatively avoid all the complication and don't bother sharing.
Unless you can share vast numbers of KVs the amount of memory saving
will be fairly minimal.



It's not just the memory saving I'm after (although that would be very
nice indeed) but also so it would be easier to manipulate the knots of
the spline in unison - and hopefully more efficient too. It also
guarantees that the knot vectors stay in sync at all times. But I
agree, it might not be worth the trouble...


Ah right sorry, I'm conditioned to seeing Spline as a subclass of Curve, interpolate a method on Curve, and KnotVector an implementation detail.

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