> I'm fairly new at Circle, fairly new at C itself as a matter of fact,
> so this question may have a fairly obvious answer to some of you.
>
> I was just wondering, what is the difference between these two
> statements:
>
> 1. send_to_char("CircleMUD is great!", ch);
>
> 2. act("CircleMUD is great!", FALSE, ch, 0, 0, TO_CHAR);
>
In appearance, nothing. However, number 1. is faster as it doesn't
use a procedure that is attempting to deal with many parameters.
If you use act() to send simple text to a character, you will start
to slow your mud down.
Marc
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