Re: Limit of 255 superclasses too low?

Uli Kusterer posted asking:
> Your program definitely sounds interesting. What is it used for? You
> mentioned a chip, but that's it ?


We have a program that generates models of chips that our chip
designers are creating--that program is what I work on. We give the
output models to potential chip customers to help them design their
products that use our chips. These output models themselves are
programs. The customers run these programs with other code they write
to test their designs, without having to give each of their designers
expensive prototyping hardware--much cheaper for them to just give out
PCs.


In any case, the models our program generates are "very" large
programs. But they are also atypical of programs that humans write.
I would be leary of a human designed class hierarchy with 255 total
classes, much less with one 255 classes deep!


Hope this helps,
-Chris


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