OpenEuphoria

Re: random numbers

• Posted by Derek Parnell <ddparnell at big?on?.com> Nov 22, 2007
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CChris wrote:
> 
> Derek Parnell wrote:
>> ... if only there was a built-in swap operation for even faster run times.
>>         swap s[r] with s[i] !!!

> 
> Swap operation: I am not sure swap(sequence s,integer index1,integer index2)
> would be much faster than current
> }}}
<eucode>
> temp=s[index1]
> implicit_temp=s[index2]
> s[index1]=implicit_temp
> s[index2]=temp
> </eucode>
{{{

> because of the overhead of routine calls. 

I said swap OPERATION and not swap FUNCTION. The idea being that there would be
an in-built operation, like the arithmetic operations, that performs optimal swap
functionality so we wouldn't have a function call overhead.

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Derek Parnell
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