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

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

committed:
http://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=commit;h=c7ba443216a2f033b4af1fe2de31dd9ce7bc0cc2


On 21 May 2013 14:32, Philip Herron <red...@gc...> wrote:

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