Tip: Performance optimization when using WeakRefs

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I just blogged about using WeakRefs more efficiently. Who knows, maybe even the Xojo IDE could benefit from this if it isn’t doing this already :wink:

http://blog.tempel.org/2017/03/using-weakref-in-xojo-heres-how-to-keep.html

2

Nice tips. I’ll have to keep this in mind next time I do something like this.

3

That’s a great tip.

4

The new framework uses a factory method to return a WeakRef. I wonder if there would be an efficient way for it to return the same WeakRef for the same object? I turned this into a feature request to find out:

<https://xojo.com/issue/47522>

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Well, we often put WeakRef at parent to keep the number low.
Should work same with old and new framework.