[REBOL] Re: order of evaluating expressions..
From: pwawood::mango::net::my at: 24-Dec-2004 19:16
Hi Romano
> The problem is that parens slow down Rebol.
Is it really a significant slow down?
>> do [
[ st: now/time/precise
[ loop 100000 [ 2 * 3 + 1]
[ print now/time/precise - st
[ st: now/time/precise
[ loop 100000 [ 1 + (2 * 3)]
[ print now/time/precise - st
[ ]
0:00:00.268024
0:00:00.303339
Regards
Peter
PS I ran the above test on my iBook G3 900mhz , surprisingly the
difference was less on my Thinkpad Pentium 1000mhz which returned
00.109 & 00.125 for the same test
