Need for Speed: Arrays

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Tue Jul 17 23:27:17 EDT 2007


Beynon, Rob wrote:
> Dick Kriesel not only suggested trying arrays but wrote some code to
> test this.
> 
> The least I could do was try it.

Thanks for taking the time, I really was curious.

> 
> Hit a bug on first pass, but Dick, the filtering (searching) section
> took 248seconds, or 4min 13 sec. So, I guess the speed gain is once
> again modest. Does this mean that Rev is really efficient, almost
> irrespective of the strategy used in the program?

Rev is extremely efficient and even the slow stuff is usually pretty 
fast. In this case it doesn't seem to matter, but there are other times 
where you'll notice a dramatic difference depending on the algorithm.

Anyway, this one was enlightening.

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