The even shorter answer is: NEVER repeatedly do ANYTHING inside a loop that will remain constant for each iteration and could be resolved outside a loop. That's language-, platform-, hardware-independent.
Shoot, it's applicable to life in general. Try it in your love life: During initialization, marry the woman ONCE, vowing vow to love her in sickness & health till death do you part rather than iteratively waking up each day and wondering, "Am I going to stay in this relationship another day?" It's much more efficient. -----Original Message----- From: Ray Wurlod The short answer is that I measure expensive by the fact that every call to an @() function in UniVerse must be resolved by recourse to interrogating a terminfo database. Why do this unnecessarily? ------- ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
