[julia-users] Question: Variable Names lenght / speed

2015-03-12 Thread Julia User
I'm new to julia and read Allowed Variable Names http://docs.julialang.org/en/release-0.3/manual/variables/#allowed-variable-names and have three general question. - Is there no limit to the lenght a variable name can have? - Does the lenght of a variable name in some way effect the

[julia-users] Question: Variable Names lenght / speed

2015-03-12 Thread Ivar Nesje
There seems to be a limit on 524,288 bytes. (See https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/8241) Naturally we use a little bit more memory for long variable names when parsing, but I highly doubt that it is measurable. At runtime the length of variable name does not affect the speed.