Hello I've noticed that the performance of the length function is a bit low for medium/large lists. As far as I understand (from runtime.c C_i_length), Chicken counts the elements from the given list everytime length is invoked. Is it like that?
If so, wouldn't it be better to have a list attribute which keeps the number of elements? So, the cost of invoking length would be nearly the cost of accessing a variable (of course, there is the cost of keeping the attribute up-to-date whenever an insertion/removal occurs and the memory usage). I think Python uses this approach. What do you think? Best wishes. Mario _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
