Call vs Send

[Richard Gaskin]

Dick Kriesel wrote:
> On 6/9/05 6:23 PM, "Richard Gaskin" <ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:
> 
>>But to be honest, it's very rare that I use either "call" or "send".
>>Both are up there with "do" in terms of a modest amount of additional
>>overhead needed to handle them relative to calls natively in the message
>>path.
> 
> On 6/9/05 8:51 PM, "Richard Gaskin" <ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:
> 
>>>What are the relative timings of handlers in the message path vs. handlers
>>>outside?
>>
>>About twice as long, but as with many benchmarks with Transcript it
>>hardly matters:  "twice as long" sounds like a big deal, but on my 1GHz
>>G4 that's still less than a microsecond. :)
> 
> Are there stronger reasons for you to use "call" and "send" very rarely?  I
> ask because I've been using "send" a lot.

I don't feel too strongly about it one way or another. I just don't find 
myself needing "send" often in the stuff I'm doing.  But if you need it 
I see no harm in using it.

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