efficiency of mfix

[Levent Erkok]

On Monday 14 October 2002 09:25 am, you wrote:
> While I'm happy that the fix versions outperform the 2-pass versions for
> boxed arrays, the discrepency between 79.16 seconds for one million
> elements and 4.54 sectons on the same data is alarming.  Can anyone
> suggest a way to reconcile this?

As you've remarked before, the mfix version crucially depends on 
boxing: it wouldn't work with unboxed arrays since the sum is only 
available after the whole array is traversed. So, the question boils
down to the efficiency of boxed vs. unboxed data access, and I don't 
think there's much we can do there. Of course, I'd love to be proven 
wrong on this one..

-Levent.