Thank you Adam, Bbaz and Ola for the helpful thoughts. I dumped
them in a wiki page off the sandbox but needs editing and
refining.
On Friday, 30 January 2015 at 14:41:11 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
Thanks, Adam. That's what I had thought (your first
paragraph), but something Ola on a different thread confused me
and made me think I didn't understand it, and I wanted to pin
it down.
There is always significant
On Friday, 30 January 2015 at 12:55:20 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Friday, 30 January 2015 at 11:55:16 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
As I understand it, foreach allocates when a simple C-style
for using an array index would not.
foreach is just syntax sugar over a for loop. If there's any
On Friday, 30 January 2015 at 11:55:16 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
Hi.
The standard advice is not to worry about memory usage and
execution speed until profiling shows you where the problem is,
and I respect Knuth greatly as a thinker.
Still, one may learn from others' experience and
On Friday, 30 January 2015 at 11:55:16 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
As I understand it, foreach allocates when a simple C-style for
using an array index would not.
foreach is just syntax sugar over a for loop. If there's any
allocations, it is because your code had some, it isn't inherit
to the
Hi.
The standard advice is not to worry about memory usage and
execution speed until profiling shows you where the problem is,
and I respect Knuth greatly as a thinker.
Still, one may learn from others' experience and cultivate good
habits early. To say that one should not prematurely
On Friday, 30 January 2015 at 11:55:16 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
Hi.
The standard advice is not to worry about memory usage and
execution speed until profiling shows you where the problem is,
and I respect Knuth greatly as a thinker.
Still, one may learn from others' experience and
