Form is really slow and fast for me. What could this mean?

[Pearu Peterson]

Hi,

On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Richard Fateman wrote:

> C:\form>form sample3.frm
> form sample3.frm
> FORM by J.Vermaseren,version 3.0(Jan 28 2001) Run at: Thu Mar 28 
> 10:26:41 2002
>      Symbols x,y,z;
>      Local q=(1+x+y+z)^20;
>      Local q1=q+1;
>      Local res=q*q1;
>      .end
> .....

Note that using .sort makes the above example approx. 4 times faster:

Symbols x,y,z;
Local q=(1+x+y+z)^20;
.sort
Local q1=1+q;
.sort
Local res=q1*q;
.end

Regards,
	Pearu