On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 08:20:38PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Note the number of updates (= actual call to update_syntax_cache):
>42,000,000. This means that function call overhead alone is costly.
Deleting the whitespace (to return the file to its original state)
costs another 6,000,000 updates. Yikes!
Aha, so every time I add a new line in this file, I'm calling 42 million
functions ?
This makes me feel soooo powerful, isn't there a clause in the Geneva
convention limitating the number of function calls one single can cause?
;)
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