8 Feb
2006
8 Feb
'06
1:16 p.m.
Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
In my language Kogut there are only pairs, and larger tuples are expressed by nested pairs (biased in the same direction as lists, without an end marker of course).
I wonder whether the performance difference is really that significant. Short tuples seem to be much more common. Anyone could gather statistics about runtime usage of tuples of varying sizes?
I agree that most uses of tuples are small, and for these, a nested representation will not be so bad. But Robert was proposing a nested representation precisely for the case where the tuples are large (possibly machine generated), and it is in those cases that performance might start to matter. Regards, Malcolm