Eliot wrote: >About 90% of the entire time is in the string copying primitive. >Not much to be done there. Sista could speed this up by eliminating >the validation overhead of the primitive. But with our current VM technology >there's not a lot one can do given that OrderedCollection is organized as a >flat stack. > This is probably a case where an ordered tree would be faster, albeit have a > lot more space overhead.
Switching collections backing store to a chunked representation once they grow beyond a certain threshold is probably the best thing to support larger collections. Stephan
