From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2009-03-06T01:58:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie question > Hash workings

On 05.03.2009 14:47, Simon Krahnke wrote:
> * Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> (2009-03-02) schrieb:
> 
>> You probably should get rid of that habit.  And here's why: your
>> approach has no means to efficiently work with Arrays as Hash values.
>> Either, you have to use += all the time which is inefficient because it
>> will create a lot of garbage
> 
> The problem is creating a lot of useless objects and copying over data,
> not leaving garbage behind.

Well, both (creation of objects as well as garbage collection left 
overs) contribute to wasted CPU and thus slower execution.

	robert