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.
> >
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