[development] performance foo

[Chris Johnson]

Moshe Weitzman wrote:
> Neil Drumm wrote:


>> Why do we even need these one-line functions? Can't the calling code 
>> just do the casting?
> 
> 
> not always. there are contexts in which function is legal but a cast is 
> not. if anyone tries to change all the calls to these objects they will 
> run into this.
> 

Hmm.  That certainly could be, although I am unable to imagine such an 
instance.  In my quick grep through the repositories, I'm not seeing any that 
cannot be changed.

Can you give an example where a cast could not be used?

..chrisxj