Re: Growable arrays?

[David Kastrup]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

> Andy Wingo <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Mon 11 Jun 2012 11:55, David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> Tables are a superset of what I need here.  I need the "growable vector"
>>> aspect, not the "hash part" aspect.  Guile 1.8 only offers subsets:
>>> "growable" does not come together with "vector".
>>
>> Why not just make your own growable vectors, then?  It will be just as
>> efficient.
>
> Sure, I will.  A native implementation would be able to benefit from
> storage layout conditions that would, in some cases, allow extending the
> array without allocating a new memory range, so it _can_ be done.

P.S.: I still need to look at vlists.  They might already address this
      issue, though I can't use them in Guile 1.8.

-- 
David Kastrup