Re^7: Could we save the memory occupied by "undef" in an array?

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in thread Could we save the memory occupied by "undef" in an array?

Trading some speed and adding some complexity to an array implementation to save memory on sparse arrays is a pretty straightforward concept. It's obviously not how Perl does it, based on the report of ps. No big surprise, since Perl normally favors speed over memory.

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Re^8: Could we save the memory occupied by "undef" in an array? by JavaFan (Canon) on Nov 24, 2008 at 16:44 UTC
As I said before, Perl gives the programmer the opportunity to trade speed for memory, and use a hash instead of an array.	[reply]

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