RunArray immutable?

Lukas Renggli renggli at gmail.com
Mon Feb 12 10:02:54 UTC 2007


> I don't see why it should not be used for other uses.

Have a look at the implementation of RunArray. It is an incredibly
slow and ugly, but space efficient implementation of arrays with many
consecutive elements. This probably made sense around 1980, but
nowadays I doubt that anybody would introduce such a thing anymore ...

Lukas

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