mixed functional / object style

[Guillaume Hennequin <gje.hennequin@gmail.com>]

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Dear list,

this is a somewhat naive question
let's define

class a = object
 val mutable v = ...
 method v = v
 method m = something that uses v
end ;;

now assume that I want to create a lot of those a objects, so many that I
may encounter memory problems.

I thought the following would be better, memory wise, but when I test it
doesn't seem to be the case

class a = object
 val mutable v = ...
 method v = v
end ;;

and instead of each object having its own method m, I define it separately
let m x = something that calls x#v

This question is somewhat equivalent to: what is the memory consumption of a
simple method
method m = let _ = self#v in () ??

Thanks a lot
Guillaume.

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