Profiling of the various assignment-operator syntaxes in Latitude

assignment-profiling.lats

;; manual

10000 times {
  a := 1.
  a= := { parent a := #'($1). }.
  do { a = 2. }.
}.

;; assignable

10000 times {
  a := 1.
  assignable 'a.
  do { a = 2. }.
}.

;; local

10000 times {
  local 'a = 1.
  do { a = 2. }.
}.

;; variable-decl

10000 times {
  a := 1.
  do { a = 2. }.
}.