On Wednesday 02 March 2005 19:51, Keean Schupke wrote: > Infact there is a tradeoff. Records with faster read times (ie offset > tables) have slower write times as the table needs to be copied and > expanded.
Which is of course the reason why extension for records is not a very common language feature. BTW, records in C don't even have offset tables, instead the offsets get directly compiled into the machine code. Ben _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell