[comp.lang.icon] Efficiency of search

ralph@CS.ARIZONA.EDU ("Ralph Griswold") (01/20/91)

find("c",s) is faster than upto('c',s).  The reason is the extra time
needed to set up the character table for upto().

The difference is small, however.

  Ralph Griswold / Dept of Computer Science / Univ of Arizona / Tucson, AZ 85721
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