Probably just my not understanding, but the first sentence puzzles me:
"While most named nouns are local to the explicit definition they are
used in,
most named verbs are in public namespaces and require a lookup."
I'd have expected While (most) A..., (most) B... " This sentence seems
to be comparing
most named nouns with most named nouns.
Sorry in advance!
Mike
On 28/01/2021 16:50, Henry Rich wrote:
The new beta has a feature to speed execution of systems with long
search paths. It should be generally applicable and I hope you will
turn it on in your scripts to wring it out.
The implementation has heretofore followed the Dictionary's model of
parsing and execution, which for named verbs is:
1. name is looked up to get its part of speech
2. (if name is a verb or undefined) a reference to the verb is
allocated and put onto the execution stack
3. when the reference is executed, the name is looked up again to get
its value
That's a minimum of 2 lookups per named verb. If the verb is executed
more than once (as in name"n) it is looked up every time it is executed.
Lookups are pretty quick, but each requires going through the locales
in the search path, and the time can add up to something noticeable.
Nameref Caching
(https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/Locales#namerefcaching)
remembers the results of each non-noun lookup in step 1 and step 3,
and reuses the result in most cases (it also remembers the lookups
across multiple executions of the same explicit entity). A typical
script, which observes a clear separation between code and data and
where each verb reference always executes the same verb, can use
Nameref Caching without modification.
Please give it a try.
Henry Rich
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