List Commands Library for 50g

[DavidM]

(07-05-2017 10:41 PM)rprosperi Wrote:  Wow, thanks for sharing these numbers David.

I've always known that defining an algebraic has a performance penalty (the price for the much easier to read 'normal' equation view) but had no idea it was this dramatic. Enlightening!

As I've been finding lately, anything related to list processing is a good torture test for performance-related issues (speed/GC/memory consumption).

Those occasional one-off algebraics won't amount to much, but put them in a loop and watch out. And a loop of permutations? This is one of those cases where inserting the algebraic as a comment and then following it with the RPL version is probably worth the investment in time.

It might also surprise some folks to know that the RPL version of that code is actually 5 bytes smaller than the algebraic one. The comment and extra line feeds are lost in compilation, of course, but the extra prologue data attached to the algebraic probably makes for the difference.