Altova Mailing List Archives>Archive Index >xsl-list Archive Home >Recent entries >Thread Prev - Re: [xsl] Computational complexity of accessing the Nth item in a sequence and in a node-set [Thread Next] RE: [xsl] Computational complexity of accessing the Nth item in a sequence and in a node-setTo: Date: 1/3/2005 10:42:00 PM > probably not a direct reference, but by calling a function myLast() > that returns > $sequence[last] > > I want this to be calculated only once. My question was will it be > successful to use the > > saxon:memo-function="yes" attribute > > on the definition of myLast() I suspect that's not a good idea. Evaluating $seq[last] is probably much faster than calculating the hash key to discover that the result is already stored. Memo functions work best when the arguments are small. As always, though, the only definitive answer is to measure it. Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/ | ||||||
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