--- Trevor Nash <tcn at melvaig dot co dot uk> wrote:
Allow me to disagree with this. The Javascript extension does
nothing
else but call the standard math.log()
And the math object itself will hardly be implemented in Javascript.
Therefore, there's no reason why Javascript's math.log() would
perform
slower than its any other language counterpart.
True, except that you are invoking an interpreter in order to
determine that it is math.log() that you need to call - I'm just
guessing that the cost of doing that is significant (scanning,
parsing, symbol lookup...). Are you saying the XSLT/Javascript
combination contrives to do this work just once per run?
To do the initial steps only once seems to be the only possible option.
Otherwise it would not be possible to maintain static data in its
latest state.
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Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev.
http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL
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