Re: Method overhead benchmarks [Was: [performance/benchmark] printing techniques]

[Matt Sergeant]

On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Barrie Slaymaker wrote:

> Stephen Zander wrote:
> > 
> > As Matt has already commented, in the handler the method call
> > overheads swamps all the other activities.
> 
> Just to clarify: that's only important if you are doing very few other
> activities, or if those other activities also include a high percentage 
> of method calls:

You also forgot that print() goes to a tied STDOUT, which is even more of
an overhead...

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