>
> As an aside, we are currently finishing up arrays as a special case of
> the list type in Unicon, with more compact C-compatible
> representation. It reduces the memory cost of big lists-of-reals by
> even more than sticking reals into descriptors, and is complementary
> to this idea.
>
In the case of real arrays the gain is even more than less accesses and
memory saving; it means one less "real block" creation for each real array
access.
Jafar
>
> Clint
>
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 8:29 AM, David Gamey <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > I was probably having a flashback to SPITBOL/370 :)
> >
> > ... where reals like integers could be kept inside the variable
> descriptor.
> > Of course that meant really weird 7 byte reals. Sometimes the underlying
> > semantics are so similar they get blurred.
>
>
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