Re: profiling

• Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 15:08:58 PDT
• From:
  Jay Carlson <nop@blackburn.ccs.neu.edu>
• cc: moo-cows@parc.xerox.com
• In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 01 Aug 96 14:16:53 PDT." <17097048@prancer.Dartmouth.EDU>

> --- "Adams, Charles" wrote:

>> I personally would like to know which builtins and list operations
>> are most expensive and possibly bump up the tick cost to reflect it.

> Mmm.  The 'in' operator takes only 2 ticks whether it is 2 in
> {1,2,3} or #<large> in players() on LambdaMOO :-P

Right.  Which means that by simple inspection of a verb you can
determine how many ticks it will use without reference to what values
it's operating on.  Loops are the exception to this, of course, but
you have a much better grip on when those rather explicit actions will
happen.

Jay Carlson
nop@nop.com    nop@ccs.neu.edu    nop@kagoona.mitre.org

Flat text is just *never* what you want.   ---stephen p spackman

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