Hi Romano > The problem is that parens slow down Rebol.
Is it really a significant slow down? >> do [ [ st: now/time/precise [ loop 100000 [ 2 * 3 + 1] [ print now/time/precise - st [ st: now/time/precise [ loop 100000 [ 1 + (2 * 3)] [ print now/time/precise - st [ ] 0:00:00.268024 0:00:00.303339 Regards Peter PS I ran the above test on my iBook G3 900mhz , surprisingly the difference was less on my Thinkpad Pentium 1000mhz which returned 00.109 & 00.125 for the same test -- To unsubscribe from the list, just send an email to rebol-request at rebol.com with unsubscribe as the subject.
