[freeciv-ai] Re: (PR#6912) Optimize/reimplement CM: per-city caches

["Benoit Hudson" <bh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=6912 >

On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 09:54:17AM -0700, Jason Short wrote:
> > [bhudson - Mon Mar 01 03:17:03 2004]:
> > 
> > I can't think of any problem of copying the parameter, but please
> > inform me if it's just a lack of imagination on my part.
> 
> 1.  It's slow.

It's 64 bytes.  We'd be copying it at most once per call to a function
that solves an NP-hard problem.  Not a problem.

> 2.  Some values in the struct may themselves be pointers.  So that data
> wouldn't actually be copied.

We'd be using the cm_copy_parameter function, so all data would be
correctly taken care of.

        -- Benoît