Write this accumuator in a functional style

[Rhodri James]

On 13/07/17 16:09, Rustom Mody wrote:
> Pavol Lisy wrote:
>> IMHO problem is doubling size for huge lists.
> 
>> Or waste big memory for huge frozensets. I mean resize it to 2*N if
>> its size is just N+1.
> 
> Couple that with the fact that space-time are not unrelated on any modern VM based OS + cache based hw. Doubly so for "managed" languages where gc buys space for time.
> 

You might want to do some benchmarks to sound out that idea.  I believe 
conventional wisdom is that the time cost of allocating more memory and 
extending the list outweighs the space cost of wasted memory.

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Rhodri James *-* Kynesim Ltd