[Swift-devel] Re: Another performance comparison of DOCK

[Ben Clifford]

> What happens in the log file for this period is lots of DSHandle creation 
> (vdl:new) - it creates 115596 datasets in 451 seconds

Swift r1790 introduces constant interning. When constants are used in a 
foreach or iterate loop, this should reduce the number of DSHandles 
created (once per SwiftScript program per constant rather than once per 
iteration per constant in <r1790)

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