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From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
Subject: Re: Mneson announcement and help request
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 05:55:28 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2004-06-04T05:55:28+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c9p2sg$7rn$1@hercules.btinternet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: -NSdneXjh7wndyLdRVn-vw@megapath.net

"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> wrote in message
news:-NSdneXjh7wndyLdRVn-vw@megapath.net...
> My point was that as long as you keep the exception handler and raising
out
> of the loop (which is certainly true for EOF), it can be quite efficient.
In
> the normal case (where you read many characters before reaching the end of
> the file), it's almost always better to handle the exception. That's
because
> one exception raise/handling pair is a lot cheaper than 10,000 function
> calls, especially one as expensive as EOF.

I think we're in 'violent agreement' :-)





  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-04  5:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-01 15:56 Mneson announcement and help request Marius Amado Alves
2004-06-02  2:26 ` Jeff C,
2004-06-02  3:06   ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-06-02 11:19     ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-06-02 11:41       ` Marius Amado Alves
     [not found]         ` <c9l0vo$pq3$1@sparta.btinternet.com>
2004-06-02 17:47           ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-06-02 19:46             ` Martin Dowie
2004-06-02 22:10           ` Randy Brukardt
2004-06-03  5:58             ` Martin Dowie
2004-06-04  3:21               ` Randy Brukardt
2004-06-04  5:55                 ` Martin Dowie [this message]
2004-06-04  7:30                   ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2004-06-04 14:11                     ` Larry Kilgallen
2004-06-03  4:12           ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-06-03  5:48             ` Martin Dowie
2004-06-03  9:02             ` Martin Krischik
2004-06-02 11:41       ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-06-02 13:14         ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-06-03  4:09         ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-06-03 11:24           ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-06-02  3:21   ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-06-22 20:49     ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2004-06-23  9:36       ` Marius Amado Alves
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