Matthew Woehlke wrote: > Chet Ramey wrote: >> I'm sure there are efficiency improvements possible in the bash indexed >> array implementation, but sequentially accessing a data structure >> optimized for space and sparse arrays is never going to be as fast as >> a read-process loop, and that difference becomes more and more apparent >> the larger the array. > > Maybe bash should remember the last position to optimize accessing the > next element?
I already took a couple of hours and implemented something like this. It will be in the next version. Sequential access performance is dramatically improved. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
