From: Intransition <transfire@...>
Date: 2010-10-07T22:28:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Benchmarks Project and example for `||=`


On Oct 7, 12:57 am, Ammar Ali <ammarabu...@gmail.com> wrote:

> It would be interesting to have performance comparisons of the various
> idioms in common use.
>
> In these examples, however, it's not surprising that the first loop (without
> ||=) would be faster. It's not doing anything really. The second involves
> testing wether the variable is defined or not, every iteration.

Yep. I wrote it b/c I wanted to know *how much* slower using ||= is.