Re: Loop efficiency

[Andres Perera <andres.p@...>]

On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
> There have been a few posts comparing the timing of while,
> ipairs, numeric for with and without the length operator on various
> systems by running loops that do only a couple of additions inside.
>
> Am I the only one who thinks that this sort of test is like
> putting some cars in neutral, have them idle for a couple
> of hours, and measure their fuel consumption?
>

i can assure you that you're not the only one :)

most posts in this list seem to be grade-a ricer material, with few,
but very welcome, exceptions

the time i spend prematurely worrying about performance is mutually
exclusive with the time i spend using dynamic languages