[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] (DROOLS-315) Support overloading of accumulate functions: Add int (or long) based sum's, int based avarage's, etc

Support overloading of accumulate functions: Add int (or long) based sum's, int based avarage's, etc ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: DROOLS-315 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/DROOLS-315 Project: Drools Issue Type: Feature Request Reporter: Geoffrey De Smet Assignee: Edson Tirelli Priority: Critical Attachments: JBRULES-1075.patch TTP nl10 solver has about a 3% performance increase when switching from sumDouble to sumLong (and possibly a bit more when switching to sumInteger) There are 2 ways I see to implement this: 1) Force the user to explicitly declare he wants to use an integer based sum and add a sumInteger. This is not so user-friendly. This is what I 've done in the patch. 2) Support overloading of accumulate functions based on the function arguments. AFAIK drl is strongly typed (at least with the java dialect), so it should be theoretically possible for the drl parser to see sum($myInteger) and bind it to SumIntegerAccumulateFunction, while binding sum($myInteger.doubleValue()) to SumDoubleAccumulateFunction. And added advantage is that the drl compiler will also mark some bugs as compiler errors. For example sum($myString)