Benchmarks

There is some overhead of using lazy() instead of substitute(), however, on my computer it’s on the order of around 1.5µs, so it’s extremely unlikely to be a bottleneck in practice.

library(microbenchmark)
library(lazyeval)

microbenchmark(
  substitute = substitute(x),
  lazy = lazy(x)
)
#> Unit: nanoseconds
#>        expr  min   lq median   uq   max neval
#>  substitute  172  186    266  328 12807   100
#>        lazy 1609 1691   1802 1981 68902   100