"

 COPYRIGHT (c) 1999 by eXept Software AG

	      All Rights Reserved

 This software is furnished under a license and may be used

 only in accordance with the terms of that license and with the

 inclusion of the above copyright notice.   This software may not

 be provided or otherwise made available to, or used by, any

 other person.  No title to or ownership of the software is

 hereby transferred.

"

"{ Package: 'stx:libbasic' }"

"{ NameSpace: Smalltalk }"

Registry subclass:#CachingRegistry

	instanceVariableNames:'keptReferences cacheSize'

	classVariableNames:''

	poolDictionaries:''

	category:'System-Support'

!

!CachingRegistry class methodsFor:'documentation'!

copyright

"

 COPYRIGHT (c) 1999 by eXept Software AG

	      All Rights Reserved

 This software is furnished under a license and may be used

 only in accordance with the terms of that license and with the

 inclusion of the above copyright notice.   This software may not

 be provided or otherwise made available to, or used by, any

 other person.  No title to or ownership of the software is

 hereby transferred.

"

!

documentation

"

    A CachingRegistry behaves generally like a registry;

    However, it keeps hard references to the last n registered objects,

    preventing them from being garbage collected (and finalized).

    This is useful for resources, which do not cost too much memory,

    but are expensive to allocate - a special candidate of this kind are

    XFonts. With a CachingRegistry, fonts are kept a bit longer alive

    and can therefore often be reused - even if temporarily unreferenced.

    This is kind of experimental.

    [author:]

        Claus Gittinger (cg@exept)

    [see also:]

    [instance variables:]

        keptObjects             Collection      hard referenced objects

        cacheSize               Integer         number of hard references

    [class variables:]

"

! !

!CachingRegistry methodsFor:'private'!

cacheSize:aNumber

    keptReferences := OrderedCollection new:aNumber.

    cacheSize := aNumber.

! !

!CachingRegistry methodsFor:'registering objects'!

register:anObject as:aHandle

    keptReferences removeIdentical:anObject ifAbsent:nil.

    aHandle notNil ifTrue:[

        keptReferences addLast:anObject.

        keptReferences size > cacheSize ifTrue:[

            keptReferences removeFirst.

        ].

    ].

    super register:anObject as:aHandle.

!

removeKey:anObject ifAbsent:absentBlock

    keptReferences removeIdentical:anObject ifAbsent:nil.

    super removeKey:anObject ifAbsent:absentBlock.

!

safeRemoveKey:anObject

    keptReferences removeIdentical:anObject ifAbsent:nil.

    super safeRemoveKey:anObject.

! !

!CachingRegistry class methodsFor:'documentation'!

version

    ^ '$Header$'

!

version_SVN

    ^ '$Id: CachingRegistry.st 10761 2012-01-19 11:46:00Z vranyj1 $'

! !