On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 23:47, Justin Palmer wrote:
> *Sorry Curt for sending this to you.*
>
> Hi,
>
> Well if any one is interested in the speed I set up an example that you
> can go to. Though, when I run the example substr() is very neurotic (or
> it seems that it is to me). It can process the same line of code at a
> lot of different intervals, while accessing it with {} is pretty
> consistant.
>
> What is the cause of this?
>
> I thought it might be the server, but would that not effect it for both
> tests (two others tests with objects)?
>
> By the by, during my testing I found that using {} to access the first
> char in a string was anywhere from .5 to 4 times faster.
{} is an operator whereas substr() is a function. Operators are
generally an order of magnitude faster than functions and if all you
want is the first character then {0} is much more efficient than
substr().
Cheers,
Rob.
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