Re: Multi-dimensional arrays and relational db data

[schwern]

On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 04:05:20PM -1000, Tim Jenness wrote:
> At the risk of receiving a flame perl5 does not have multi-dimensional
> arrays. It has something that will do the job with a massive memory
> overhead ands lots of pain when dimensionality is high.

If you need it, I can finish off multi-dimensional array access in
Tie::VecArray, then you'll have true multi-dimensional arrays.  Very
compact, but slower than a snail race in January since its tied. :(

Perl 5, with its dynamically resized scalars, can't easily have
vector-based arrays.  Since Perl 6 is introducing types it should be
safe to assume that an array of type 'int' (or some other fixed-width
type) will be optimized to a vector.


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