From: Randy Kramer <rhkramer@...>
Date: 2005-04-05T06:37:07+09:00
Subject: Re: doubly linked list in Ruby?

On Monday 04 April 2005 04:29 pm, Tim Hunter wrote:
> Randy Kramer wrote:
> > But (just asking), what about performance?  Is an entire new array
> > created, or is the new stuff (only) put in a newly allocated piece of
> > memory and a pointer/reference/whatever inserted into (maybe a linked
> > list which implements) the array?
>
> Don't know. Don't care. Do you think your application's performance will
> be dominated by array insertions and deletions?

No.  Sometimes curiosity gets the best of me. ;-)

regards,
Randy Kramer

> Not too mention, the standard Array methods are written in C. I have no
> reason to think that manipulating a Ruby-based linked list with Ruby
> code would be faster.