Re: [Caml-list] looping recursion

[Brian Hurt <bhurt@spnz.org>]

On 28 Jul 2004, skaller wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 11:43, Brian Hurt wrote:
> > On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 briand@aracnet.com wrote:
> 
> > Very long lists are a sign that you're using the wrong data structure.
> 
> What would you recommend for a sequence of tokens?
> Streams are slow and hard to match on.. bucket lists
> have lower storage overhead but hard to match on.

Extlib Enumerations.  For short lists, yeah they're slower than lists.  
But for long lists, I could see them being a lot faster.  Don't forget 
cache effects- streaming processing can have much better cache behavior 
than repeatedly walking a long list (too large to fit into cache). 


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