I wonder what use one would have for these doubly-linked locales. To me, it has kind of a bad code smell but that may be because I'm unfamiliar with the sort of thing for which it's intended.
On Fri, May 20, 2022 at 2:54 PM Don Guinn <dongu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes, I find the numbered locales quite useful, but building the > double-linked list of locales might mean he might intended to have very > many locales created and could be a performance problem to delete the > locales. > > On Fri, May 20, 2022 at 11:46 AM Raul Miller <rauldmil...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > On Fri, May 20, 2022 at 1:29 PM Don Guinn <dongu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Just a thought. The management of numbered locales is not very > > efficient. A > > > while back I created several thousand locales as an object test. I went > > to > > > delete all of them and it took forever. > > > > Right. > > > > My understanding was that J's locales were designed to roughly > > correspond with intel's "Structure of Arrays" abstraction. > > > > As I understand it, Ken Iverson did not see much use for the popular > > but inefficient abstractions which would roughly correspond with > > intel's "Array of Structures" abstraction (with "objects being similar > > to structures, but heavier). > > > > In other words, for code where execution time is a bottleneck, the > > purpose of J's locales should be thought of as being more analogous > > (for example) to the purpose of Java's namespaces than the purpose of > > Java's object system. > > > > -- > > Raul > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Devon McCormick, CFA Quantitative Consultant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm