--- Luke Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joe Wilson writes: > > Dan Sugalski: > > > 2) Parrot's Array and SArray values all accept mixed-type data, which > > > perl's arrays do *not* do, and as such have some extra speed hits > > > that perl arrays don't. > > > > What do you mean? > > Perl's arrays do indeed accept mixed data types (see example below). > > No, they don't. They are arrays of PerlScalars only.
I assumed Dan meant strings, floats and integers were mixed data types because this is what my benchmark programs demonstrated. That crazy english language. Leave out a word and it changes the meaning of a sentence. ;-) > > For this: > > set P1, P0[35] > > The current Array and SArray have to sift through the sparse table to > find the 35th index (that's pretty efficient, but it still needs to > check whether it needs to do that). It then checks whether the 35th > element is indeed a PMC (it could be an int, num, or str), and then sets > P1 to that element. > > Perl's array doesn't have sparse handling (the timing of > perl -le '$x[10000000] = 1' should convince you of this), and it doesn't > need to check whether the 35th element is a scalar, because the only > thing it holds are scalars. > > Luke __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/
