[#5322] O(1) performance for insertions/deletions at the front of an Array/String — Eric Mahurin <eric_mahurin@...>

I just did some benchmarks on push, pop, shift, and unshift

24 messages 2005/07/01
[#5338] Re: O(1) performance for insertions/deletions at the front of an Array/String — Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...> 2005/07/02

On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Eric Mahurin wrote:

[#5348] Re: O(1) performance for insertions/deletions at the front of an Array/String — Eric Mahurin <eric_mahurin@...> 2005/07/02

--- Mathieu Bouchard <matju@artengine.ca> wrote:

[#5357] Re: O(1) performance for insertions/deletions at the front of an Array/String — Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...> 2005/07/03

On Sat, 2 Jul 2005, Eric Mahurin wrote:

[#5359] Re: O(1) performance for insertions/deletions at the front of an Array/String — Eric Mahurin <eric_mahurin@...> 2005/07/03

--- Mathieu Bouchard <matju@artengine.ca> wrote:

[#5361] Re: O(1) performance for insertions/deletions at the front of an Array/String — Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...> 2005/07/03

On Sun, 3 Jul 2005, Eric Mahurin wrote:

[#5362] Re: O(1) performance for insertions/deletions at the front of an Array/String — Eric Mahurin <eric_mahurin@...> 2005/07/03

--- Mathieu Bouchard <matju@artengine.ca> wrote:

[#5365] Re: O(1) performance for insertions/deletions at the front of an Array/String — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2005/07/04

Hi,

[#5367] Re: O(1) performance for insertions/deletions at the front of an Array/String — Eric Mahurin <eric_mahurin@...> 2005/07/04

--- Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:

[#5368] Re: O(1) performance for insertions/deletions at the front of an Array/String — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2005/07/04

Hi,

[#5372] Re: O(1) performance for insertions/deletions at the front of an Array/String — Florian Gro<florgro@...> 2005/07/04

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

[#5420] Sydney Developer Preview 1 released — Evan Webb <evanwebb@...>

Sydney, an experimental ruby interpreter, has been released!

15 messages 2005/07/11
[#5424] Re: [ANN] Sydney Developer Preview 1 released — Evan Webb <evanwebb@...> 2005/07/12

Thanks everyone for the feedback so far!

Re: O(1) performance for insertions/deletions at the front of an Array/String

From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2005-07-04 00:05:49 UTC
List: ruby-core #5365
Hi,

In message "Re: O(1) performance for insertions/deletions at the front of an Array/String"
    on Mon, 4 Jul 2005 07:37:23 +0900, Eric Mahurin <eric_mahurin@yahoo.com> writes:

|The main difference I saw was that a character would be
|represented as String rather than a Fixnum.  I'd rather see it
|remain an Integer to handle the unicode encodings - Fixnum when
|that is enough and Bignum where needed.  That would give better
|compatibility.  And efficiency when dealing with encodings that
|fit in a Fixnum.

Ruby's strings may not be in Unicode, so that simple fixnum does not
hold encoding information.

|I just hope the common set of methods between Array and String
|don't get smaller.

We won't remove existing methods from both classes, although we don't
encourage illusion of strings being array of something.

							matz.

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