Rope PMC (was Re: Why has pbc_to_exe become unusable?)

[Vasily Chekalkin]

Hello.

Very strong -1 from me for Rope. It tries to mimic Strings but it's
not String. I rather would like to see StringBuilder as part of core.

-- 
Bacek

On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 2:34 AM, Jonathan Leto <jaleto at gmail.com> wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> A Rope PMC sounds like a great idea. Should it be developed in core,
> or perhaps in Parrot-Data-Structures [0] ? That way a few different
> implementations of the Rope PMC can be written and benchmarked, and
> the most versatile implementation can be pushed back to core. I would
> be willing to help with this.
>
> Duke
>
>
>
> [0] - http://github.com/Whiteknight/parrot-data-structures
>
> On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 6:56 AM, Kevin Tew <tewk at tewk.com> wrote:
>> This is really a simple data structure problem, with a well known solution.
>>
>> Theses use cases should be using ropes not strings.
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rope_(computer_science)
>>
>> Ropes really are just a generalization of a StringBuffer or chromatics RSA
>> trick.
>> If you eventually output a rope to a stream (say a file stream) there is no
>> need to ever flatten or allocate space for the entire stream.
>> Apache's buckets is another well know example of where this idea is used.
>>
>> We should add a rope PMC that has a flatten to string and write to stream
>> operations.
>>
>> Kevin
>>
>> Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 08:04:39AM -0400, Andy Dougherty wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> This does bring up another question, however.  The old concatenation
>>>> scheme used to work; now it doesn't.  (Or, more precisely, it works on small
>>>> files, but not on large ones.)  Should I open a separate ticket on the
>>>> inefficiency of concatenation in the new immutable strings era, or was
>>>> pbc_to_exe's use so pathological that it's not worth worrying about?
>>>>
>>>
>>> The compiler toolkit does a lot of concatenation in order to generate
>>> the PIR that ultimately gets compiled.
>>> The POST compiler converts each POST::Op node into the appropriate
>>> PIR statement (a string), and concatenates these strings together
>>> to produce the final PIR output.  So I suspect it's worth looking into.
>>>
>>> Pm
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