Hi, Hmm, I knew it would be slower, but I did not expect this slowdown.
Thank you both for the explanations. Something to learn every single day :). Cheers, Doru On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 9:54 PM, Andres Valloud < [email protected]> wrote: > We’re only measuring execution speed, not memory allocation, which is >> important too. >> > > Yes. And besides having to collect the garbage at some point, allocation > can be costly because the VM has to zero out the string bytes (or nil them > if the string is not encoded) and then write on those zeroed (nilled) > places with something else. It takes time. > > > The length of the strings is a variable as well, of course. >> > > The order also matters, e.g. > > (String new: 7812681237643287423), 'a', 'b', 'c' > > and the way you aggregate the result matters as well. > > > Conclusion, let’s be careful with a too simple advice. >> > > Yes, it's much more complex than it seems when the inefficiency of naive > concatenation methods is not flagrant. > > Andres. > > -- www.tudorgirba.com "Every thing has its own flow"
