Re: ver4 keyword Conflict
- Posted by mattlewis (admin) Oct 03, 2011
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jimcbrown said...
Anyways, the reason is - speed. IO is pretty basic and it's something we have to do a lot. Better make it as fast as possible.
The same applies to tan(). But I've never used it, so I don't care how slow it is.
Well, simply with respect to speed, I wouldn't worry about the I/O performance, since the actual I or O is typically going to dwarf just about anything we do. Stuff like tan, however, is quite likely to be speed critical for someone doing lots of number crunching.
This would be especially important to someone working on, say, a physics library.
Matt
