On 17 November 2012 02:39, Raul Miller <rauldmil...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Alex Giannakopoulos > > then cheap tricks like "padding" to read will have to be discarded, > > and something more serious adopted. (I mean, you're not going to > > pad a 3-d cube with 6 copies of itself, are you? LOL) > > Why not? > > For contrast, in lisp, it's traditional to use lists which double the > storage needed to represent a list of numbers > [...etc] > > Also, on my phone, I've numerous applications I do not use and which I > cannot turn off which each occupy about 8MB. In contrast, six copies > of a 3D tic-tac-toe board is probably about 1k of memory... > That's an interesting perspective Raul, thanks. However, my concern was not the saving of 1k mem, but a deeper elegance issue. I may be wrong here, I don't know, but I always prefer my data to exist as only one copy, and as many references to it as are needed. And while a 3D tic-tac-toe is not that taxing on memory, the same can't be said of 10k x 10k x 10k cellular automaton. Anyway, I'll see how it goes once I write it. Thanks for all your help. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
