I took just about the worst case scenario: a single-line function I wrote a few weeks back:
function isLeapYear Y return Y is a number and Y mod 4 = 0 and (Y mod 100 > 0 or Y mod 400 = 0) end isLeapYear If any function is going to pay the price for the cost of a function call, that's it -- there's minimal work to do in the actual function, so any overhead will be that much worse in proportion to how little actual work there is. Calling that with i = 1 to a million takes just over a second on my computer. If I inline the function, it takes 0.25 to 0.3 of a second. So the speed-up for inlining is substantial -- the overhead of calling the function is greater than the time spent on the actual code. But it's still not that bad. And any function with more than a few lines of code in it will be much less affected. _______________________________________________ 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
