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Re: minimum function? (Modified by Simon Forster)
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Re: minimum function? (Modified by Simon Forster)


  • Subject: Re: minimum function? (Modified by Simon Forster)
  • From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 13:31:27 -0400

On Apr 6, 2005 11:31 AM, Axel Luttgens <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> One has a similar phenomenon with references to lists.
[...]
> Here, on my box, this results in about a 12x speed increase...
>
> Now, unless I'm wrong, a true explanation for this has never been provided.

Ineresting.  This is just a guess, but it sounds like "get item i of foo" winds up making a copy of foo. so of foo is a list, it duplicates all of the list's items, while if foo is a listref, it only duplicates the reference itself.


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