Re: Structure field concatenation

[davidf(at)dfanning.com (David Fanning)]

Craig Markwardt (craigmnet@cow.physics.wisc.edu) writes:

> A few things from my experience.  First, creating and recreating
> structures appears to be a fairly expensive operation.  If you do it
> once in a while that's fine, but if you do it with huge arrays, or
> many times repetitively then you may start to feel the burn.  

I'm not sure what you mean by "expensive" here.
But if you mean every time you want to add a new
field to the structure you spend an hour and a half
of your expensive time tracking down all the places
in your code where you are defining the structure,
then I agree with you.

I say define it once and be done with it. It 
will make your code a LOT easier to maintain. :-)

Cheers,

David

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