Monticello Definitions Instances class variable

Hi,

Why are monticello definitions are stored into Instances class variable
of class MCDefinition? It's just a matter of fast snapshots?

Thanks,
Noury
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Am 14.06.2006 um 10:33 schrieb Noury Bouraqadi:

> Hi,
>
> Why are monticello definitions are stored into Instances class  
> variable of class MCDefinition?

To save space.

> It's just a matter of fast snapshots?

No, it's a registry to avoid duplicate definitions. When you load two  
versions of packages after each other, usually only very few  
definitions are actually different, we want to avoid having the  
duplicates twice in the image.

- Bert -