Re: Extracting from text [Lecture]
Re: Extracting from text [Lecture]
- Subject: Re: Extracting from text [Lecture]
- From: Andy Wylie <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 19:23:34 +1300
on 1/3/02 1:52 PM, Shane Stanley at email@hidden wrote:
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On 1/3/02 11:23 AM +1000, has, email@hidden, wrote:
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> BTW, this always makes me wonder why some folk use ("" &
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> someString) instead of (someString as string) as the former is really bad
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> design and significantly slower.
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I haven't tested this for a while, but I can't see any "significant"
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difference in speed. But I do remember that when it became all the vogue, it
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had definite speed advantages -- that's _why_ it was used.
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recent discussions reminded me this was lurking in my drafts folder Shane...
I tested "" & notAstring awhile ago under AS 1.3.7 and found it sluggish
enough to put me off it though of course it's insignificant used sparingly.
_____________________________ Andy
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