[fpc-devel] Unicodestring branch, please test and help fixing

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 9/10/08, Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Please read the following...
>
>  http://exciton.cs.rice.edu/JavaResources/DesignPatterns/FlyweightPattern.htm
>
>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flyweight_pattern
>
>  Design Patterns - Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
>   (aka GOF book)
>  "Most contemporary document editors don't use an object for every
>  character, presumably for efficiency reasons. Calder demonstrated that
>  this approach is feasible in his thesis [Cal93]. Calder's glyphs can
>  be shared to reduce storage costs, thereby forming directed-acyclic
>  graph structures. We can apply the Flyweight pattern to get the same
>  effect." ― A Case Study (chapter)
>
>  [Cal93] - Paul R. Calder. Building User Interfaces with Lightweight
>  Objects. PhD thesis, Stanford University, 1993.

I forgot to add the reference to the Flyweight Pattern (falls under
Structural Patterns) on page 195 in GOF book.


Regards,
  - Graeme -


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