That reminds me. I know I ran across a method that runs a block and
then tells you how long it took. Anyone remember what that's called?
On Oct 3, 2008, at 3:09 PM, Mariano Abel Coca wrote:
Just check it by yourself. ;)
|result|
100 timesRepeat:
[ result := String new.
4000 timesRepeat: [ result := result, 'abcdefg' ]].
^result
|writer|
100 timesRepeat:
[ writer := WriteStream on: String new.
4000 timesRepeat: [ writer nextPutAll:'abcdefg' ]].
^writer contents
Cheers,
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Mariano.
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Herbert König
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Hello Mark,
Friday, October 3, 2008, 4:52:39 PM, you wrote:
MV> Is there a reason to prefer one of these approaches over the
other?
MV> Maybe one is more efficient and should be preferred if doing a
large
MV> number of appends.
speed is the reason for the stream approach. The #, approach copies
the first string once for each #, send.
MV> Are there other approaches I should consider?
Don't know of any but then I'm not an expert.
Cheers,
Herbert
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