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The Dark · Oct 17th, 2007, 7:37 PM

One of the posts that went missing in this thread (I can't remember who wrote it) pointed to this blog: Eval is Evil
I read through that and have made some modifications to some of my code that was using eval extensively to test for the existence of a list of variables. It now runs in 1/5th of the time! It was actually slowing the whole program down quite a bit, as this list has grown slowly from about 20 variables to over 500.

So thanks to whoever it was who posted it previously.

Oct 17th, 2007, 7:37 PM	#4
The Dark Expert Programmer Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 824 Rep Power: 4	Re: compile a var name from another var One of the posts that went missing in this thread (I can't remember who wrote it) pointed to this blog: Eval is Evil I read through that and have made some modifications to some of my code that was using eval extensively to test for the existence of a list of variables. It now runs in 1/5th of the time! It was actually slowing the whole program down quite a bit, as this list has grown slowly from about 20 variables to over 500. So thanks to whoever it was who posted it previously.