[Biojava-l] RE: Going in circles (again)!

[Mark Schreiber]

On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Thomas Down wrote:

> > I like the idea for isDecorated changing.  I don't know enough about the
> > guts of Java to know if it saves cycles, but it's cleaner.
> 
> instanceof is a single pointer comparison on most VMs, so it
> should go nice and quickly...
> 

OK, I'll do it that way.

Mark

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