From: Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.ruby-core@...>
Date: 2005-07-05T00:16:06+09:00
Subject: Re: O(1) performance for insertions/deletions at the front of an Array/String

Eric Mahurin wrote:

> They could also be easily extended to Bignum when you need more from
> the encoding - an arbitrary sequence of bytes could be put into a
> Bignum.

Why would you want to do this?  What gives you the idea that a Bignum
would be more efficient than a String anyway?

> The main exception to that I can think of is when you have an excess
> of zero bytes.  "\000\000\000\000" and "\000" couldn't be
> distinguished when you put them into an Integer.

So perhaps they shouldn't be?,
        nikolai

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