On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 10:25:07PM +0200, awards wrote: > Hi, > > thank you, Now i have a new question. > If I do the code myself which I can do. > would the process of executing the program faster if I do the code myself or > if I use a Module i.e Date::Calc?? > > regards > awards
There is a small amount of overhead in loading a module, but it's generally negligible. After that, the question of "will my hand-rolled code be faster than the module" comes down to a comparison between the particular way that you implemented the code versus the particular way that the module implemented it. That is something that only benchmarking can answer for you. However, I would **strongly** recommend using the module. It will save you a lot of time, because the module is already written and thoroughly tested, it is standard so it will make the lives of future maintenance programmers (which might include you) easier, and, most importantly, date math is a lot harder than you might think. Here are just a couple examples of why: Q: If you add 24 hours to 12:10pm, February 28, what do you get? A: You can't tell without knowing what year you are working in (leap year problem). Q: If you are working with past dates, how do you handle the fact that different parts of the world adopted the Julian calendar on different dates? --Dks -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
