Re: [tclquadcode] New stuff for array accesses

[Donal K. F. <don...@ma...>]

On 12/11/2017 20:06, Kevin Kenny wrote:
> OK, I'm kind of with you on this. I think that there are, however, a
> significant fraction of cases where we can detect that an array
> doesn't escape from our compiled code and still use the (much faster)
> dict implementation. I'm not sure I'm ready to give it up, partly
> because so far, whenever we have heavy variable access through the
> callframe, we wind up with test cases that are actually slower than
> the interpreted code. (Extra boxing/unboxing steps, I think...)

I don't think it will make too much difference; the ARRAY type I'm 
thinking of is not much more complex than a DICT in the first place, 
except that it doesn't have the conversion to/from STRING. A consequence 
is that I'll need to introduce a 'throwIfArray' and 'throwIfNotArray' to 
make the types work. Still at the deeply experimental stage.

Donal.