If I understand your problem correctly, then any decent optimizing
functional array language compiler would automatically lift the date
conversion
(to constant) out of any loops, and give you the same performance
as if you had hand-coded the constant.
If you email me the relevant code (or suitable fragment thereof),
I'll attempt to prove my claim.
Bob
On 2016-12-29 11:40 AM, Raul Miller wrote:
On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 6:39 AM, Jack Andrews <[email protected]> wrote:
For those who've used static typed languages, have you ever programmed in a
dynamic typed language said to yourself, "static types would have prevented
that problem"? Just curious.
Rarely, but yes.
Currently, though, I'm struggling with a problem where using a
reasonable way of expressing a date makes a calculation take 15
minutes while hard coding the date as a constant makes the same
calculation take 33 seconds. (And I need to implement this so it runs
every hour - or, preferably, every five minutes - on an ongoing
basis.)
I expect there's a lot of static type skeletons buried here.
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