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Pete Littlebird
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Join date: 30 Sep 2009
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10-20-2009 06:29
Would I be right in thinking that all the good I do by replacing "llGetListLength (my_list)" with "
my_list != [])" would be undone if I made it into a function "integer GetListLength (list my_list) {return (my_list != []);}"? |
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Meade Paravane
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Join date: 21 Nov 2006
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10-20-2009 07:31
Pete's full of questions today!!
 I think I heard that LSL lists are ArrayLists underneath with mono so llGetListLength is probably not as expensive as you think it is. Dunno for sure, though. LSL is all pass-by-value so any time you pass a list to a function, it's got to make a copy of the list - expensive! I'd guess "list != []" is cheapest followed closely by llGetListLength, followed not-so-closely by a function... _____________________
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