[rules-users] Performance on Rule Removal

[Mark Proctor]

dgtester wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm new to this list, but I have a question about the performance costs of
> removing a rule. I know that if I have, for example, 100 rules that there is
> an API to remove just one of them. However, what I don't know is how
> efficient it is to do this. Does removing just one rule clear out all of the
> existing inferences and then recompute the working memory from scratch
> (perhaps by recompiling the remaining 99 rules)? Or, alternatively, does
> Drools have some efficient way of just removing that one rule along with
> only the specific items that were inferred using it? Does anyone know?
>   
yes to the later, that's t he point of the rete algorithm.
> Thanks,
> David
>