On 22 Jun 2012, at 22:23, Paul DeBruicker wrote: > On 06/22/2012 01:11 PM, Igor Stasenko wrote: >>> >Here are some benchmarks: >>> > >>> >[ 1000 timesRepeat: [ ZTimestamp now ] ] bench '1,910 per second.' >>> >[ 1000 timesRepeat: [ DateAndTime now ] ] bench '253 per second.' >> what? 253 per second? what it doing there? >> > > 253 iterations of 1000 timesRepeat:[DateAndTime now] per second. > > So ~253,000 iterations of DateAndTime now per second. > > [DateAndTime now] bench
Yes, depending on the use case one can discuss about the absolute numbers. But consider a LRU style cache where on each operation the timestamp is updated to now, you'll want speed, right ? Sven
