Re: Dice
Re: Dice
- Subject: Re: Dice
- From: David Andrews <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 21:46:01 -0400
On Oct 26, 2004, at 3:10 AM, Michelle Steiner wrote:
Hmm, which of the following is the fastest?
random number from 1 to 6
some word of "1 2 3 4 5 6"
some item of {1,2,3,4,5,6}
For very large ranges, the first is the easiest to type.
-- Michelle
On Oct 26, 2004, at 2:54 PM, Tom Humiston wrote:
set freq to {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}
repeat 10000 times
set roll to random number from 1 to 6
set item roll of freq to (contents of item roll of freq) + 1
end repeat
freq
[snip]
I used "some item" instead of "random number" and the script runs much
faster -- about 1 sec. vs. about 1.5 min.
set freq to {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}
set nums to {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6}
repeat 10000 times
set roll to some item of nums
set item roll of freq to (contents of item roll of freq) + 1
end repeat
freq
[snip]
- Tom
OMM:
set freq to {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}
set nums to {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6}
set numss to "1 2 3 4 5 6"
set tStart to (current date)
repeat 600000 times
--set roll to random number from 1 to 6 -->
--{{100218, 100223, 99687, 99897, 99802, 100173}, 73}
--set roll to some word of numss -->
--{{99582, 100278, 100027, 100086, 100208, 99819}, 95}
set roll to some item of nums -->
--{{99731, 100335, 99784, 100104, 100027, 100019}, 22}
set item roll of freq to (contents of item roll of freq) + 1
end repeat
set rTime to (current date) - tStart
{freq, rTime}
So "some item of nums" is much faster that the other two techniques.
David A
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