Dear Jürgen,
For starters, this discussion, in my mind, is just academic at this point.
Not knowing the details of GNU APL, I will speak somewhat abstractly.
1. The intent is to save space and not time. The space savings, depending
on the application, can be extremely high.
2. The time cost
Hi Blake,
it is definitely saving space, but it most likely taking more time.
Consider Z←A ⍴ IDX← ⍳ N to represent the creation (IDX ← ⍳ N) and use (Z
← A ⍴ IDX) of IDX.
At ravel cell level a cell is created with constructor IntCell() and
used with get_ravel(r). The
argument of IntCell is a
I'd like to add that things like:
v←c[500]
would not cause an expansion, but things like:
c[500]←44
would.
On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 11:27 AM, Blake McBride wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Back when I coded in APL, there was discussion about the storage of iota.
> For example:
>
> a←⍳100
>
> b
