Re: Dice
Re: Dice
- Subject: Re: Dice
- From: Malcolm Fitzgerald <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 17:36:10 +1000
Not bad, if there were not some item! :)
kai wrote:
Hm... 'some paragraph' has the edge OMM - although my test differs
from yours somewhat.
On Oct 27, 2004, at 1:55 AM, Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote:
I used 1000 items, characters, words, paragraphs, etc and repeated
1000 times to get these two sets of results from Smile's chrono on a
G4 400.
....Paragraph is a strong performer but it is slower than random
number here and they are both left in the dust by character.
Joseph Weaks wrote:
And I am getting even differenter results picking randomly from a set of
ten repeating a million times as per this handler:
on doIt(theSet)
set t1 to current date
if theSet = "" then
repeat 1000000 times
set x to random number from 1 to 10
end repeat
else if class of theSet is string then
repeat 1000000 times
set x to some paragraph of theSet
end repeat
else if class of theSet is list then
repeat 1000000 times
set x to some item of theSet
end repeat
else
return "huh?"
end if
set t2 to current date
return (t2 - t1)
end doIt
You are doing a lot more inside the timing routine than I am. That could
have an effect. Also I'm using a different and more finely tuned
instrument than current date. This is how I set up the test.
-- chrono requires satimage osax
set n to 1000
set nList to {}
repeat with i from 1 to n
set end of nList to i
end repeat
set my text item delimiters to ""
set someChars to text 1 thru n of (nList as string)
set my text item delimiters to " "
set someWords to nList as string
set my text item delimiters to return
set someParas to nList as string
set t0 to chrono
repeat n times
get random number from 1 to n
end repeat
set t1 to chrono
repeat n times
get some item of nList
end repeat
set t2 to chrono
repeat n times
get some character of someChars
end repeat
set t3 to chrono
repeat n times
get some word of someWords
end repeat
set t4 to chrono
repeat n times
get some paragraph of someParas
end repeat
set t5 to chrono
get {mfRandom:t1, mfItem:t2, mfCharacter:t3, mfWord:t4, mfParagraph:t5}
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| | >Re: Dice (From: kai <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: Dice (From: Malcolm Fitzgerald <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: Dice (From: Joseph Weaks <email@hidden>) |