Re: Type-checking performance
- Posted by Patrick Barnes <mrtrick at gmail.com> Feb 02, 2005
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On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 18:20:14 -0800, Robert Craig <guest at rapideuphoria.com> wrote: > Using 2.5 beta vs 2.4 on DOS or Windows, I find 2.4 to be > significantly faster on this, by about the same ratio as you > show above, *but* using my latest build of 2.5, > I find 2.5 to be a bit faster than 2.4. I don't know why, > but modern CPU's are very complex, and small differences > in the machine code stream can sometimes make a big difference in time. > I don't recall tweaking anything to do with types or calls in 2.5, > certainly not since 2.5 beta came out. What are your thoughts on optimising types that do nothing but return 1, basically alias them to the parent type? While from a technical standpoint it does nothing, from a semantic point of view it can be very helpful, as we can see what is expected in a parameter without a performance hit. -- MrTrick