Re: Nested evals - are they evil?

[ysth]

Leave well enough alone?

If you really want to fix things, investigate the all possible causes of exceptions and decide ahead of time how you want to handle them. Then stop and consider if that really provides any benefit over how things are now.

[cLive ;-)]

I'm leaving them for now, but since this is a daemon, I think (though have yet to benchmark) that removing the evals will speed things up a little. Or a lot. If a lot, removing them suddenly becomes essential.

I was just wondering right now if philosophically it was better to work towards removing them.

Hmmmm.

[perrin]

You think that block evals are a performance penalty? I've never heard that. Have you tested that theory at all?

[cLive ;-)]

No, hence the words, "I think" and "have yet to benchmark" ;-)

I guess my hunch was wrong on that count. I think it's just that I'm not 100% sure exactly how eval is dealt with that is troubling my psyche. Time for more background reading...