caGetOption calls are problematic

[collectiveaccess]

caGetOption calls are problematic

[collectiveaccess]

We're aware of this – we're using the same profiler that you are – and have had the same concerns. caGetOptions is a useful convenience method in general but you're correct that in most cases it just reduces to an array access than can be inlined. That said, when we did that in various hot spots, including ones with 10's of thousands of calls in a tight loop, we didn't see any change in performance at all. The actual total time spent in caGetOptions was tiny. This work was done about a year ago, and perhaps there are cases where the above is no longer or has never been true. We'll take another look.