From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2005-12-04T11:22:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Implementation of String or Array #slice and similar ops?

On Sun, 4 Dec 2005, Ron Jeffries wrote:

> Thanks to all for the info on this. It sounds like with strings I won't get
> any advantage from COW at all on slicing, and that even with arrays I'll not
> be much better off.
>
> For my current purposes, I don't see how to use arrays anyway, since I'm
> interested primarily in large chunks of contiguous memory.

can you use narray?  it stores the elements as continuous memory.  i've got a
patch that allows it's use with mmap to - so a file can be mapped, manipulated
as an narray, and the bytes are persisted to file automagically.


-a
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