Re: Speed Question...

[Marcus G. Daniels]

>>>>> "DS" == Darren Schreiber <address@hidden> writes:

DS> Does the creation and dropping of an index for each agent consume
DS> more time than is gained by not using atOffset?  Recall that this
DS> will involve the creation and dropping of 50,000 indexes since
DS> each agent will be comparing a unique list.

For short lists, it may well be the case that re-creating an index is
slower.  If at all possible, you'd really win if you could preallocate
a C array as an ivar.  There's neither cost if you can offset into
a C array.

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