Programming puzzles: processing lists!

[pier4r]

(05-26-2018 10:11 PM)DavidM Wrote:  So... it can be to your advantage to use PUT with a type 3 array. It still makes a copy, but it is faster to perform the operation. PUT with a type 29 array is no better than with a list, though.

Another problem is development time. With the list there are a lot of really neat commands, for example LMRPT, thanks to goferlist, listExt, lsort and what not. With vectors I presume I will have to create (or search) a lot of equivalents by myself as they are not available in libraries (even better optimized libraries).

Plus from your description one should be really careful in creating a vector and - you don't state it - but I feel the increment in speed would be noticeable only with many many many operations.