On 23/02/06, Bulat Ziganshin
Hello John,
Thursday, February 23, 2006, 4:07:52 PM, you wrote:
JM> That is the plan. none of the current Array implementations will JM> change, they will still be instances of both MArray and HasBounds. it is JM> just that HasBounds will no longer be a superclass of MArray, however JM> that doesn't affect performance in any appreciable way.
our plans are equal :)
JM> (and array JM> operations pretty much always end up specialized anyway so all class JM> overhead disapears.)
this depends. IArray/MArray interfaces currently contains only a few operations and all other implemented in fixed manner, so you can't omit any overheads
Well, there's always RULES pragmas. I can see that freeze and thaw get rewritten in some cases, there's also a bunch for listArray. - Cale