"Pedalogical"? If you mean pathological - then yes. :) If you mean pegagogical, then so-so with a grain of maybe.

This being as "micro" an optimization as it is, it is not likely you will be able to say it will be faster than something else in any particular case. If you can do more work than initializing the array in a loop, then using the slice method to fill it up front may possibly end up being slightly slower, f.ex. In any case this is not going to make a significant difference. The bottom line is that either way you turn it, you'll have to benchmark it for your data and your algorithm.

Makeshifts last the longest.

In reply to Re^4: Array How to/Performance by Aristotle
in thread Array How to/Performance: mass initialization or update using array slice by Anonymous Monk

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