streching storage manager

Ketil Malde ketil@ii.uib.no
29 Sep 2001 07:49:33 +0200


Saswat Anand <saswatan@comp.nus.edu.sg> writes:

> As regard to Marcin's suggestion of using a list of compact arrays,
> although elements can be accessed faster, there will be a lot if
> redundancy since windows are overlapping. So consecutive arrays
> will contain almost same data. 

Hmmm - a circular buffer array, fed from a lazy read?  Of course, if
this is to be more efficient than a lazy list of arrays, you need
to destructively update the buffer.

Perhaps this is a too Cistic solution.

-kzm
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