[Glass] CharacterCollection #asNumber

Sat Dec 14 16:34:22 PST 2013

Mariano, 

GemStone does not have a "native asNumber" for CharacterCollection...however, there are primitive calls that can be 20 times faster than asNumber, but you have to know ahead of time whether or not the string you pass is an Integer or a Float ... take a look at implementors of #fromString: ... 

Dale 

----- Original Message -----

| From: "Mariano Martinez Peck" <marianopeck at gmail.com>
| To: glass at lists.gemtalksystems.com
| Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2013 2:30:22 PM
| Subject: [Glass] CharacterCollection #asNumber

| Hi guys,

| I am profiling a bit my app and it seems that CharacterCollection
| #asNumber is not that fast.
| but...first I have a question. If I browse CharacterCollection, the
| method #asNumber is under 2 categories at the same time:
| 'Converting' and '*squeak-converting'. How is that possible?

| Second....is there a native/optimized version of such a method?

| Thanks!

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| Mariano
| http://marianopeck.wordpress.com

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