>> Under which circumstances would you begin to care more for involved differences >> in corresponding run time characteristics? > > When the difference is hours vs seconds. Such a view can be influenced by execution environments in considerable ways. > In this case, there are tradeoffs between the two options, I am trying to improve the awareness for possible software design variations. > andI don't know which would be faster, I am curious if more contributors would get into the mood to compare data processing approaches a bit more. > but I think it is extremely unlikely that the difference is noticible. But the following effects may be known for the evaluation of a SmPL rule which was combined for two code parts. * The SmPL dependencies are checked only once. * Can the source code search efforts be reduced a bit? > But if you are concerned about it, you are welcome to try. Will anybody become interested to measure the software behaviour exactly? Regards, Markus