At 06:30 PM 2/9/2001 +0000, Nicholas Clark wrote: >On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 01:19:36PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: > > The less memory you chew through the faster your code will probably be (or > > at least you'll have less overhead). Reuse is generally faster and less > > resource-intensive than recycling. What's true for tin cans is true for > memory. > >reduce, reuse, recycle. >The first R might also be important :-) Oh, no doubt. Everything's got tradeoffs, the question is always "what's most important". In perl's case, it's speed, and memory usage is of secondary importance unless it impacts the speed of the program. Dan --------------------------------------"it's like this"------------------- Dan Sugalski even samurai dan@sidhe.org have teddy bears and even teddy bears get drunk