Re: Apoc2 - concerns

[Dan Sugalski]

At 09:32 AM 5/8/2001 -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
>Perl 6 might not put all the elements of @b on the stack as a temporary
>list.  Rather, it might just put \@b marked as expandable.  (It might
>also have to put some kind of copy-on-write lock on @b to keep it from
>changing out from under, depending on how lazy the assignment (or
>subroutine) actually gets about reading out the array.)

s/might not/won't/;

One of the places I hope to gain some speed is in eliminating flattening 
and reconstitution of aggregate variables as much as possible. I'm hoping 
to exploit this really heavily to save both the memory for the flattened 
lists and the time it takes to flatten and reconstitute. (If we're really 
lucky we might even be able to rehome some of the underlying data 
structures, making returning a 10M entry hash cost about one pointer 
assignment)

                                        Dan

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