Oops I didn't read you're mail very thoroughly did I? Its true, us men
cannot multitask!
What is the range of these indices? Could you look up the fn in a table?
E.g.
T, TI = {}, {}
COUNT = 1, RANGEMAX = 1000
function setvalue(fn, index, value)
assert(index>=0 and index<RANGEMAX)
if not TI[fn] then TI[fn] = RANGEMAX*COUNT; COUNT=COUNT+1 end
T[TI[fn] + index] = value
End
function getvalue(fn, index)
assert(index>=0 and index<RANGEMAX)
return T[TI[fn] + index]
end
i.e. use a look up table to map fns to indice base ranges and add
specific index. If you do it your way you are generating loads of
strings which is inefficient processing wise and in memory use and GC.
Nick
