From: Florian Gilcher <flo@...>
Date: 2009-11-11T06:17:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Good or best way to allocate a large array


On Nov 10, 2009, at 4:25 PM, Jonathan Schmidt-Dominé - Developer wrote:

> What's about using C or C++ to allocate and deallocate the array? I  
> do not
> think Ruby was made to create such Arrays.


All basic Methods in Array (especially #new) are implemented in C, so
I don't think you will gain a lot. Implementing the whole algorithm in
C might be worthwhile, because you would bypass using a Ruby object for
every slot, but the Array is not the issue here.

As others have shown, it works reasonably quick.

Regards,
Florian