Quoted or unquoted literals

[Devin Asay]

On May 11, 2009, at 12:38 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> I was curious about the time difference between quoted and unquoted
> literals, which we were discussing in another thread. Though our tests
> seemed to show there is no significant difference, conceptually it
> didn't make any sense to me. So I asked one of the engineers at RR  
> about
> it and got some interesting info.

<interesting stuff deleted>

> In this test only the word "the" varies. The difference in speed when
> omitting "the" from property references is much smaller than when
> dealing with unquoted literals, but it still exists. In real-world  
> usage
> it probably doesn't matter much.
>
> Geek trivia. :)

And I am totally geeking out!

Devin

Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University