[REBOL] Re: Fun with blocks of words (a tad longish)
From: g:santilli:tiscalinet:it at: 11-Oct-2001 11:09
Joel Neely wrote:
> > > Again we get five references to the same word!
> >
> > Five different words, but bound to the same context and thus
> > referring to the same value. (Well, maybe this makes them "the
> > same" to you... I don't want to start a new thread on mutability
> > and sameness... ;-)
> >
>
> (Nor do I, but if "same" means indistintuishable... ;-)
[...]
> which makes me think that words with identically-spelled names bound
> to one context are (or become, or whatever...) the "same" word.
But I think there's difference between "five references to the
same word" and "five words wich are the same". Anyway, probably we
should not worry about these implementation details...
> I was setting up to make the point that taking out the overhead for
> non-recursive cases simply means that there's an overhead delta for
> using recursion. For instance ...
Indeed, but recursion is implemented without rebinding too, so it
is quite fast.
> shows that the recursive version takes about 20% more time than
> the iterative version.
Your benchmarks are always very valuable! Thanks!
Regards,
Gabriele.
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