Re: coercing a list
Re: coercing a list
- Subject: Re: coercing a list
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2001 11:00:05 -0700
On 9/2/01 9:25 AM, "has" <email@hidden> wrote:
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Well, I'm about as morally decayed as they come, so I've no qualms about
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using OSAX at every opportunity. But this thread got me thinking after a
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while, so I did some speed comparisons that seem to indicate that using
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TIDs to break down a string into a one-dimensional list is significantly
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faster than the jolly old "decompose x by y without sublists" I'm so used
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to using. Even decomposing TAB/CR-delimited text (which means using a loop
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to break down to sublists in the pure-AS method, so isn't as fast) seemed
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at best to be a draw.
I agree on the speed of TIDs. But one reason why Akua's commands are slower
is that Akua is not PPC native - it's still using the 680x0 mechanism. Greg
has said that he's working on a PPC native version, which now, I believe,
will also be carbonized for OS X (and will be shareware). I imagine that
trying to adapt 200+ commands for OS X is going to take him a while,
especially now that he apparently has a full-time job. It will be well worth
the wait.
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Paul Berkowitz