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[REBOL] Re: Rugby for Artists => was Re: Re: Medium+ Scale Developments

From: greggirwin:mindspring at: 14-Jan-2002 13:13

Hi Don, << But isn't this incredibly slow compared to running the function locally?
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Yes, but...it depends on your connection, the overhead of the marshalling, and the amount of time spent in the function, as well as the frequency of the call. Even making an out-of-process call on the same machine is much slower than an in-process call, and you *don't* want to call simple built-in routines, in a tight-loop, through a slower pipeline. However, if you're analyzing weather data for a national laboratory and you can call a routine that runs on their Cray and just gives you back a result, that's what you should do. IOW YMMV. :) --Gregg