From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-11-17T03:37:51+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:6402] Re: Array.fill with block?

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:6401] Array.fill with block?"
    on 00/11/17, Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@dmu.ac.uk> writes:
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|Does anyone else think that it might be a good idea for Array.fill to take
|a block to compute the value for each successive element?  I'm thinking
|that it might be faster/more efficient than Array.collect! because it need
|not pass in the value each time. It could pass in the index number,
|perhaps.

You mean that Array#fill with a block should be faster since it
doesn't have to retrieve the element?  I don't think so.  Retrieving
an array element in this case costs only a few machine instructions
for each element, I believe.

							matz.