From: Bulat Ziganshin Date: 2002-10-03T14:06:30+09:00 Subject: Re: tuples versus arrays Hello Mauricio, Wednesday, October 02, 2002, 11:24:55 PM, you wrote: >> it is another question. memory allocator is common to all classes, so >> it's his problem - fast allocation of small memory areas. your idea is >> only for case when class has ITS OWN memory sub-allocator MF> I was rather thinking of the common memory allocator using a separate MF> area (and algorithm) if it is told the memory for a n-sized tuple. better approach - using special blocks for allocating 1-20 byte areas, and one common block for all areas larger. tuple is not only one structure with fixed size which ryby VM has to allocate -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:bulatz@integ.ru