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Ethan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Thu Dec 16 15:58:36 EST 2010


Arnaud Delobelle wrote:
> Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> writes:
> 
>> ...I timed exec vs function, and found the function style to be about
>> 200% faster...
> 
> So it finished before it started?

Hmmm....

Let me check my calculator...

.

.

.

Ah!  Okay, that was 200x faster.  :)  I think -- it was a few months ago 
now, and my numbers might be off a bit, but I was definitely impressed 
with A) how much faster the function style was, and B), how very little 
time it saved me.

~Ethan~




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