As you want, Vladimir. :)

Vlad

>Hi Paul!
>
>The results of these test canot be used in general sense because the
>results depends on many factors such as moon phase ;) In most cases
>readability (or the beaty) of code is the perfomance too...
>
>* Beggars cannot be choosers
>
>>But we can make tests. And in this kind of problems, I never saw one that
>
>>is faster when is done in 2 steps. This is why I asked you: to be
>>It matters a lot. And I agree that sometimes you can/must trade
>performance
>>for readability. But this doesn't mean readability = performance.