From: Bulat Ziganshin <bulatz@...>
Date: 2002-09-30T23:28:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Where Is Method Call Precedence?

Hello William,

Monday, September 30, 2002, 5:36:41 PM, you wrote:

no, len is coded in tuple type (Tuple2, Tuple3 and so on). and if you
don't know, Ruby allocs 16 elems when array is created. i don't
remember exact conditions of when initial capa will be lesser than 16

WDT> Do you mean just because we need to story only "len" instead of "len" and
WDT> "capa" for each array/tuple?  I think it is only a saving of 4 bytes per
WDT> array.

>> tuple is an array with fixed size. when you have very large number of
>> small arrays, you will save many memory bytes



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