Re: [Gccpy-devel] [PATCH] struct gpy_object_list: remove the "length" attribute.

[Philip H. <red...@gc...>]

Ah cool sounds good to me, i havent added in slice support yet so
list[index] doesn't work yet but i have a patch in progress to have that i
should push up because it relies on the compiler generating code for it.

--Phil


On 21 May 2013 14:11, Cyril Roelandt <tip...@gm...> wrote:

> On 05/21/2013 09:14 PM, Philip Herron wrote:
>
>> Looks like a good idea, are you considering moving to a new list
>> implementation aswell? I will apply this patch makes a lot more sense. I
>> am
>> working on adding more documentation to the wiki but its going slow.
>>
>>
> I checked the Python implementation, and, iirc, they also use a vector,
> and preallocate memory every time it has to be resized, so that operations
> such as append() or extend() are not too expensive. I thought of moving to
> a "real" list implementation, but that would probably not be a good idea in
> the end, since Python lists also work as arrays (ie l[index] must be fast).
>
> Cyril Roelandt.
>