Yup, to clarify they are both fast and neither allocated a significant amount of memory.
Thanks, Colin > On Nov 27, 2014, at 5:07 AM, Tim Holy <tim.h...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I should have read the rest of the thread. By "similar timings" do you mean > now that they both are fast and neither allocates any significant memory? > (This > is how it should be.) If not, you're still using a global variable. > > --Tim > > On Wednesday, November 26, 2014 01:46:22 PM Colin Lea wrote: >> Ah, ok. Thanks! I ran those as functions and got similar timings. >> >>> On Nov 26, 2014, at 1:35 PM, John Myles White <johnmyleswh...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Yes, the global scope is scarcely optimized and doesn't provide useful >>> information about performance.> >>> -- John >>> >>> On Nov 26, 2014, at 10:33 AM, Colin Lea <colin...@gmail.com > <mailto:colin...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>>> That was in global scope. Should that matter? >>>> >>>>> On Nov 26, 2014, at 1:30 PM, John Myles White <johnmyleswh...@gmail.com >>>>> <mailto:johnmyleswh...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> ? >