Re: 5.4 with arrays patch (work in progress)

[Dibyendu Majumdar <mobile@...>]

On 18 March 2018 at 14:25, Petri Häkkinen <petrih3@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Anyone willing to step up and write a patch for arrays? I bet it would solve the issues with #, make Lua code clearer about its intent and also give a nice perf boost. As arrays would be a new lang feature, existing code would not be affected at all.
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>> A good proof of concept and demonstration how it solves the issues might be all that is needed to convince Roberto et all that this is the right way to go ;-)
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>> Heck, this could be the killer feature of 6.0 that would make people stuck in 5.1 to jump aboard.
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>> If not, then at least we could drop this talk about arrays and move on.
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>> Any takers?
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>> Petri
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> Well, I took a stab at it myself for some Sunday fun. It’s still very much work in progress, but the initial results seem promising.
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> Code and benchmarks at: https://github.com/petrihakkinen/lua-array
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Looks like we posted at the same time.

I see that you have created a new array type. My approach in Ravi is
to create sub types of Table (similar to how Integer sub type of
Number works). Having a separate type does have some advantages - one
can optimize the structure for arrays, for example.

BTW you also need to update all the Lua api functions so that they
work transparently on arrays.

Regards
Dibyendu