[slang-users] SLANGFUN and arrays .....

[Paul Boekholt]

On Tue, 5 Jul 2005 18:13:11 -0400, Michael Noble <mnoble at space.mit.edu> said:

> This kind of operation will likely involve the creation of temporary
> arrays, so keep performance in mind for large arrays or perhaps trade
> off to associative arrays to conserve space/memory and time (removal
> would happen in O(1) time simply setting array["string_index"] = NULL
> or something).

Or use a list.  From the manual:
  
  The most important difference between an array and a list is that an
  array's size is fixed whereas a list may grow or shrink.  Algorithms that
  require such a data structure may execute many times faster when a list is
  used instead of an array.