On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 12:57 PM, Matthew Butterick <m...@mbtype.com> wrote: > Is it cheating to avoid divisions by using table lookups?
Everything is fair in love, war, and benchmarking. :) But this introduces an additional cost that's a little bit more troublesome to measure. Specifically, each namespace that instantiates `racket/base` will now take a tiny bit more space and take a tiny bit longer to initialize. I think this would boil down to a judgment call, but a first step before making that judgment call would be to get some benchmarks we think are representative (that actually call number->string) and figure out what inputs they supply (and how often they supply them). Based on that, then minimize the size of the table and then I'd say that we're in a good position to make the judgment call. Robby -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
