Six vs Half a Dozen

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Wed Nov 20 14:45:00 EST 2002


Rob Cozens wrote:

> Is there any functional difference between (in a script):
> 
> on processThis toThis
> doThis toThis
> end processThis
> 
> [No doThis handler in the script]
> 
> and
> 
> on processThis toThis
> send "doThis"&&value(toThis) to me
> end processThis
> 
> on doThis toThis
> pass doThis
> end  doThis

According to RevBench, the difference is only about 0.0007 ticks in favor of
directly calling the handler over using "send".

Why send the message to "me" only to pass it elsewhere?

-- 
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