[REBOL] Quote (Paren) Benchmark
From: robbo1mark::aol::com at: 13-Dec-2001 4:49
Further to my post yesterday about the usefulness
of the 'quote function when used to define words
to evaluating expressions (parens!) as opposed
to 'does functions, I've done some simple
benchmarking here with two words which do nothing.
The quote paren word 'a is 100% faster in these
circumstances than the word 'b does function version.
Anyone care to try out some more heavy duty benchmarking
to see what avarage speed gains are overall by coding
without function calls?
the bechmark test code is below,
cheers,
Mark Dickson
>> quote: func ['value] [return :value]
>> a: quote ()
== ()
>> b: does []
>> b
>> a
>> print c: now/time loop 100000000 [a] print d: now/time prin
t [d - c "elapsed"]
9:33:46
9:34:03
0:00:17 elapsed
>> print c: now/time loop 100000000 [a] print d: now/time prin
t [d - c "elapsed"]
9:34:12
9:34:29
0:00:17 elapsed
>> print c: now/time loop 100000000 [b] print d: now/time prin
t [d - c "elapsed"]
9:34:36
9:35:10
0:00:34 elapsed
>> print c: now/time loop 100000000 [b] print d: now/time prin
t [d - c "elapsed"]
9:35:22
9:35:56
0:00:34 elapsed
