Re: Fragmented arrays?

On Jan 20, 2010, at 11:33 PM, Jon Loldrup wrote:

> 2010/1/20 John Reppy <[email protected]>
> Actually, there is
> 
>        Vector.update : 'a vector * int * 'a -> 'a vector
> 
> but it is not a very efficient operation.
> 
> I guess it writes a complete version of the (updated) vector to memory?
> 

Right.  If I remember correctly, it was added because Chris Okasaki had a scheme for
building efficient functional arrays on top of vectors that required such an operation.

	- John



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