[OpenLayers-Users] Question on Points and Memory

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 04:55:52PM -0600, Bill Thoen wrote:
> When you create multiple instances of OpenLayers.Geometry.Points do you 
> also get multiple copies of all the Point functions (e.g. distanceTo, 
> move, clone, etc.) put into memory with each point? 

Yes.

> I understand the 
> difference between instance and prototype using the old javascript 
> notation, but I'm still trying to puzzle out how things work in the 
> OpenLayers library with its JSON syntax.

It's no different. Things that you put into an OpenLayers.Class
constructor get tacked onto the prototype: nothing more fancy than that.

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
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