Re: [ic] Is "==" faster than "eq" ?

["Ed LaFrance (New Media LLC)" <suppressed>]

At 08:19 AM 3/19/2005, you wrote:

> I've been using eq everywhere but I'm getting the feeling that == is
> faster comparing numbers.  Is that true?

I don't know about faster, but it is the more correct operator to use, as 
the string comparison operator will not always yield correct results for 
numbers, i.e.:

        '1' eq '1.0'    # numerically true, but will return false

        1 == 1.0        # numerically true, and will return true

Ed


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