The speed of MC

[Richard Gaskin]

Ray G. Miller wrote:

> From: xbury.cs at clearstream.com
> 
> ...snip... 
>> Another consideration is
>> 
>> if x is in "picasso" or x is in "miro" then...
>> is slower than
>> if x is in "picassomiro" then
>> 
>> But to avoid mistakes or substring-matching errors,
>> 
>> if x is among the items of "picasso,miro" then...
> 
> Question: 
> Is "is among the lines" or "is within" faster than say:
> 
> get lineOffSet(cr & thisStr & cr,cr & reallyBigVar & cr) ?
> 
> Has anyone run speed tests?

You can run such tests easily with RevBench:

<http://www.fourthworld.com/rev/index.html>

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