From: William Djaja Tjokroaminata <billtj@...>
Date: 2002-10-01T04:37:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Where Is Method Call Precedence?

Hi,

Isn't that in the current Ruby (1.6.7) the memory area is already managed
in the 'VALUE *ptr' member of struct RArray?  Are you also suggesting to
remove both 'len' and 'capa' and using some C "sizeof" trick?  But then it
seems it is still only a saving of 8 bytes per tuple as compared to an
array (I don't think we can remove the 'struct RBasic basic' member).

Regards,

Bill
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Mauricio Fern?ndez <batsman.geo@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 10:36:41PM +0900, William Djaja Tjokroaminata wrote:
>> Do you mean just because we need to story only "len" instead of "len" and
>> "capa" for each array/tuple?  I think it is only a saving of 4 bytes per
>> array.

> If size is fixed (de)allocation can be made much faster and is
> easily managed with a memory arena. 

>> Bulat Ziganshin <bulatz@integ.ru> wrote:
>> > tuple is an array with fixed size. when you have very large number of
>> > small arrays, you will save many memory bytes