On 12/27/18 7:24 PM, Peng Yu wrote: >> I don't believe that at all. The number of positional parameters is kept >> anyway. It's not recalculated when you compare it to another number, so >> it's just as fast as a simple comparison of two integers. > > Getting the number $# is slow.
You haven't presented any evidence to support this, nor any basis for comparison. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/