[REBOL] Re: [to] to block! vs to-block
From: carl:cybercraft at: 18-Nov-2004 5:51
On Thursday, 18-Novenber-2004 at 11:09:38 you wrote,
>In the discussion about handling "untrusted" data, I noticed that
>Gabriele used "to block!" whilst Sunanda used to "to-block". I'm trying
>to understand if this is just a matter of personal preference or there
>is a real difference.
>
>On my machine, to block! appears to be at least 15 percent quicker than
>to-block as shown by the following timing test. The test isn't very
>accurate because I had other applications loaded on the machine at the
>time. I did run a loop of 25 timing tests and to block! was always
>quicker.
Speed's the only difference, as TO-BLOCK's just a function that duplicate's TO BLOCK!
You can see this in the source of TO-BLOCK...
>> source to-block
to-block: func ["Converts to block value." value "Value to convert"][to block! :value]
Carl Read.
