I’d expect it’s allocation and copying.
And as you execute it in the repl, there’s no compiler involved.
Rather, the JE “knows” it’s dealing with a single element only.

Am 25.10.20 um 11:52 schrieb pietdion:
> Ok.  Thanks.
> What explains the huge time difference?
> Does the compiler somehow “know” it’s only dealing with one element in the in 
> place assignment?
> 
>> On 25 Oct 2020, at 7:25 pm, Lippu Esa <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hello
>>
>> It is not expensive if an in place assignment can be made:
>>
>> a=.i.1e7
>>   ts '(_999+1000{a) 1000 }a'
>> 0.07655064 134219392
>>   ts 'a=.(_999+1000{a) 1000 }a'
>> 0.00000177 1792
>>
>> Esa
>>
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>> pietdion
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>> Subject: [Jprogramming] Adding constant to a specified element of a vector
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>> What is the best way to add, say,  scalar x to component i of vector y?
>>
>> One way is (x + i{y) i} y
>> But this seems clumsy/expensive.
>> Is there a cleaner/more efficient way?
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