Waldek Hebisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Currently FriCAS use strings as names of operator properties. > I plan to change this to symbols -- currently I am testing > a patch. > > One motivation for change is speed: searching property list > using symbols as keys is much faster than using strings as > keys. On mapleok.input using sbcl this gives about 19% speedup > (72.99s after change, 89.31s before). I have other changes > which speed up mapleok.input, so the percentage may change, > but this clearly shows that symbols are much faster.
Wow! It's much cleaner *and* faster! > Another motivation is that symbols just looks right as keys: > symbols were invented for similar purposes. YES YES YES! Martin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/fricas-devel?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
