zac wrote:
>
> R. Bhakti Klein wrote:
>
> > Well, it's certainly not on the level of C, in terms of memory
> > allocation and other system level stuff.
>
> Certainly. But either is Java.
very true, and java is also known to be slow compared to C etc.
>
> And that doesn't mean that you shouldn't examine your code. The example I
> posted was over 300% faster...I think that sort of speed difference bears
> looking into
yes, i very much agree with that.
but i personally would rather use dot syntax, and optimize it as best as
possible, and not worry about any relative difference between that, and
if i had written it with the old syntax.
--bh
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