Re: Game engine test

[Lo Saeteurn <realbasic at miensoftware dot com>]

Why would RS do it this way when #pragmas for bounds checking is off?  
So are RB arrays faster than memoryblocks? I thought memoryblocks  
were the fastest thing in RB. Learning how much faster a simple array  
in C compared to a basic (harder-to-use) memoryblock is not  
encouraging...
Are RB arrays using methods to get the data as well? They must be  
special tables.
> myarray[offset] is simply pointer lookup. All accessors on  
> memoryblocks are methods; they perform bounds and endian checks.  
> While bounds checking is nice (you can't shoot yourself in the foot  
> by writing into someone else's memory), the function overhead and  
> all the checks that are performed make it slow.
> Proportionally, the function overhead and the checks are much more  
> work than actually reading or writing the data.
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