Pulled from the archive at Leo's request (thanks Leo).
Leopold Toetsch wrote:
It originated in a perl5-ism in the first array implementations, following the
perl-way:
$elems = scalar @array;
which was directly translated to:
set I0, P0
This works at least for "small" arrays.
The prob
On 10/18/06, Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
IMHO the only way to get rid of this historical confusion is:
- disable the set opcode for arrays by throwing an exception in the vtable
- use elements for getting .elems only
- implement 2 new opcodes
elements P0, I0# fill with defa
Am Mittwoch, 18. Oktober 2006 01:35 schrieb Karl Forner:
> Hi,
>
> Is there a way to specify a minimum allocation size for PMCs like strings
> or arrays ?
> Something like in perl : %h = 1000 ?
>
> It could boost execution times when you have a good idea of the space you
> need.
> For example, I'd
