Thomas Lord wrote:
Jason Orendorff wrote:
One does not write portable code that manipulates text and then run it
on a different implementation when one wants rope-like performance
instead of conventional string-like performance.
Aren't they the same, albeit at slightly different scales, except in
those
cases where rope-like is always better? Because, isn't "conventional
string-
like" an incomplete, degenerate rope implementation half-hidden in
VM OS code?
"yes"
-t
"Conventional strings" make no physical sense if performance is
your goal. "Random access" is a polite fiction for when we ignore
power laws. Rumours of the death of Moore's law are premature
and language designers, as compared to OS designers, should be
less concerned with scale (in the fractal sense) -- even from the
most pragmatic of perspectives.
"yes, really. at least if you know what i mean."
-t
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