"Marcus Boerger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Hello Ionut,
> 
>  some remarks about your proposal:
> 
> 1) You can turn any array into a Traversable using
> (Recursive)ArrayIterator. Though this solution is still slow. The issue is
> that the c-level code needs to verify the current pointer every single
time
> it uses it and that means traversing the array from the beginning. That
> said we might want to:
> a) Optimize that for cases where we don't have to. Basically when nothing
> else is pointing to the array (refcount==1) we know when the array can be
> changed and do not have to verify it always.
> b) provide a lower level array to traversable mechanism that operates on
> the current pointer provided by the array itself. That way having no need
> to verify that pointer at all.

That would be nice. 

Just written some code todo a binary search on keys, using the
ArrayIterator::seek().
It was either that or use array_keys() on potentially large array.

Jared


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