Hi.. Write a test handler that loops a function call and another that implements the same functionality in line.
The working code can be anything simple. Loop thousands of times. Write back. Craig Newman -----Original Message----- From: Dr. Hawkins <doch...@gmail.com> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> Sent: Sat, Oct 4, 2014 1:55 pm Subject: the "price" of a context switch/function call I'm eternally conflicted between the needed frugality of my eight bit childhood and the desire for clean code . . . And I never forget the model I wrote in smalltalk with nice "proper" OO message passing (the messages I was modeling, in fact), and then rewrote line for line in Fortran without optimizing--a 45,000 to one speedup. Anyway, today's conflicted question is on function calls, and how much it "costs" to make a function call in livecode. If I'm going to call a routine, say, 100 times in a fraction of a second, do I really save much by inlining it rather than calling it as a function? -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
