From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2006-03-15T05:14:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Small optimization tips

ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, James Edward Gray II wrote:
> 
>> On Mar 14, 2006, at 12:59 PM, Charlie Bowman wrote:
>>
>>> I'm still new to ruby, but what does this mean?
>>
>> The Set library is a standard library that comes with Ruby.  I believe
>> it uses rbtree if it can be loaded or a plain Hash otherwise, but it
>> supports the expected set operations and keeps the contents unique.
> 
> when, oh when, will rbtree be in the core...  sigh.
> 
> -a

and it would be nice for it to have some more methods, like #slice! (a
destructive version of #bound).

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