Note that they all take time linear in the size of the array. If you need to do a lot of insertions in a long list, you ought to review your algorithm, and see whether you really need to keep a sorted list. Perhaps a (balanced) tree will be better.

I considered something like that, but I don't think it will be worth the extra complexity in this situation. Insertions (and deletions) won't be happening anywhere near as often as ordered processing of the list, which is easiest with a sorted array like this.

I'm also curious as to how Perl does slices internally if the loop version and the slice version are more or less the same. I'd assumed that a slice becomes an anonymous list, with copies of the original values. Wouldn't that take more time to setup than just iterating through the existing one?

Thanks for the splice tip. I wasn't aware of it:)

In reply to Re: Re: Shifting an Array by kelan
in thread Shifting an Array by kelan

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