Proposal: Large arrays (original) (raw)

rssh at gradsoft.com.ua rssh at gradsoft.com.ua
Tue Mar 24 15:06:04 PDT 2009

Arrays are extremely ugly. They don't follow java's usual semantics at all; they have a read-only field, which java normally doesn't have. I

Just note: low-level mechanisms are always 'ugly' from high=level point of view. And you can't live without low-level mechanisms at all, because method calls and checks for auto extending have cost. For example, I one time implemented term representation as plain arrays and as array-list in implementation of term rewriting system: hight-level constructs was near 60% slowly. I. e. role of arrays in java is not for end-user application programmer (for near 90 % of code collections is better) but for building of high-level library constructions.

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