[Discussion] How important would you consider speed? (in code)

[mej71]

Do you consider speed important, and how much? For instance, I made a word wrapping method, while a regexp method can do almost the same thing (it doesn't seem to wrap properly for me though). My method benchmarks at about 1/1000 of a second, whereas the regexp speed is so minuscule the benchmark shows it as 0. I might just need to reform the regexp function to do what I want (for which I will have to look at more things because it is confusing to me), but I was wondering if there was really a point in this case.


Edit: fixed the regexp method to work correctly, so now the example is null but the question remains
Here's the methods if you want them

Spoiler:

RegExp

#word wrapping
class String
  def wordwrap(width)
    return self.scan(/\S.{0,#{width-2}}\S(?=\s|$)|\S+/)
  end
end

Other one

def wordwrap (text,width)
  textarray=[]
    wordsarray=[]
    #break text into words
    wordsarray=text.scan(/\w+/) 
    count=0
    count2=0
    done=false
   loop do
      textarray[count]=""
        for i in count2...wordsarray.length
          count2=i
          if (textarray[count].length+wordsarray[i].length+1)>=width
            done=true if [email protected]
            break
          else
            textarray[count]=textarray[count]+wordsarray[i]+" "
            done=true if i==wordsarray.length-1
            break if i==wordsarray.length-1
          end
        end
        count+=1
        break if done==true
    end 
return textarray
end

 

[DarkGrey]

Speed is one of the most important things in Essentials, and the overall slow speed is what holds it back the most.

 

[FL]

In cases where the memory usage/performance decrease isn't notable, choose a clean code.