From: "Ara.T.Howard" <ahoward@...>
Date: 2004-06-30T08:22:53+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] arrayfields-3.0.0

On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Kirk Haines wrote:

> Okay, admittedly, sometimes I'm too dense for my own good, but I'm
> confused.  It looks to me like, internally, each array is using a hash to
> keep track of the fields to indices mapping, and that hash is not shared
> amongst arrays with the same set of fields.  So you end up using more memory
> using arrayfields for something like database result sets than if you just
> used hashes.
>
> I put together a few simple little test programs to try it out, using
> arrayfields and using hashes to store similar sets of data, and in practice
> it looks like arrayfields uses almost 2x the amount of RAM for a given data
> set, as well.  Am I missing something, here?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kirk Haines

not as dense as i am ;-)  you are correct about the ram.  i 'fixed' myself
into this when i was making some updates for testing - let me have a look at
it and post a fix....

-a
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