efficiency of various equivalent tests

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 04:47:41PM -0400, Brian K. White wrote:
> Which way causes fp to do less, or faster, work at run-time?
> 
> "and list"
> A) If: aa eq "" and bb eq "" and cc eq ""
> B) If: aa{bb{cc{"" eq ""
> 
> "or list"
> A) If: aa eq "" or bb eq "" or cc eq ""
> B) If: "|"{aa{"|"{bb{"|"{cc{"|" co "||"

Write a loop that shows the start time, does that 100,000 times, and
then shows the end time.  Run twice.  :-)

PS: It was one year ago, today.

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