From: Patrick Ritchie <pritchie@...>
Date: 2006-02-21T22:55:14+09:00
Subject: Re: define_method fun

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Ah ah, makes total sense now thanks for the explanation.

Cheers!
Patrick

>On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 23:51 +0900, Patrick Ritchie wrote:
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>>Wow, that's impressive, why such huge difference?
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>eval-ing (especially a string) is expensive, basically.
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>If you move the eval outside the method body, it means you only pay that
>cost once (when defining the method), rather than every time the method
>is run.
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>-mental
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