[armedbear-devel] Array Cleanup Example

[Ville Voutilainen]

2009/11/11  <logicmoo at gmail.com>:
> * It uses Arrays.fill(...) when it can
> * throwing badMajorRowIndex from one array (repeated code)

That's a nice cleanup, avoids repetition.

> CONS:
>  On a 32bit machine the new represention takes the same ram
>  64 bit machine takes twice the ram after the refactor.

Are our Fixnums dependent on the machine architecture? Why, how?

Is there any noticeable performance difference?