From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2003-01-12T10:27:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby:  politics & performance [long]

In article <200301111701.12221.transami@transami.net>,
Tom Sawyer  <transami@transami.net> wrote:
>On Saturday 11 January 2003 01:47 pm, Louis Krupp wrote:
>
>Louis Krupp,
>
>one option might be to use hashes in place of arrays. you can index them 
>yourself. instead of [a, b, c] use {0=>a, 1=>b, 2=>c}. hashes, i was suprised 
>to discover, are around 12x faster than arrays.
>

except that he's talking about list_append as used in the parser... I 
don't think using hashes will help at all.  It seems that the issue has to 
do with node lists which are constructed by the parser.

Phil
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