Weak dictionaries and optimized variables
Raphael Collet
raph at info.ucl.ac.be
Wed Feb 25 14:37:54 CET 2004
Today I wrote:
> Christian wrote:
>
> > Am I correct in that the order of the exchange builtins are wrong?
> > Always costing code and time?
> >
> > Why did you continue in this absurd fashion ;-) I think that this
> > might be an opportunity to remove that quirk.
>
> You're right. I simply followed a colleague that used to be a
> functional programmer (call him "K" ;-) I'll fix that.
Wait a minute. We did not invent this thing (sorry, "K").
Cell.exchange works this way, and nobody complained about it, to my
knowledge. We suspect that the performance gain will be ridiculous.
So I decide to not spend time on this.
Cheers,
raph
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