Another newb question - How to you clear a field?

[Mark Wieder]

Jacque-

Friday, May 8, 2009, 12:13:43 PM, you wrote:

> I confess I made up the "twice as long" part, I don't really have any
> hard numbers on the increase. But as I understand it, it takes longer.
> Though with Rev being as fast as it is, the delay is probably not very
> noticeable most of the time.

I don't have hard numbers for this either, but it does take marginally
longer. And as Jacque said, probably not enough to worry about unless
you're processing a loop.

Another thing that surprised me is that saying "the last word" or "the
first word" also takes longer to execute than "word -1" or "word 1". I
figured "first and "last" would automatically get compiled down to
primitive bytecode, but apparently that's not the case.

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-Mark Wieder
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