[REBOL] Re: To-pair vs as-pair
From: nitsch-lists:netcologne at: 2-Jan-2003 4:30
Anton wrote:
>Yes, as-pair is quite useful.
>Keep in mind that if you use these
>functions in a tight loop that draws
>some graphics, for example, you can
>
[snip]
>
>You can see that as-pair makes three mezzanine function calls.
>This will slow you down in a tight loop, so instead,
>you could just do everything yourself:
>
> to pair! reduce [to integer! x to integer! y]
>That will be much faster.
>(And also backwards compatible to last full version of view 1.2.1)
>
if speed matters i would drop the reduce
p: 0x0 p/x: 3.8 p/y: 5.3
probe p
in an expression you can use
p2: (p: 0x0 p/x: 3.8 p/y: 5.3 p)
