1. RE: Re: Speed test
> From: rforno at tutopia.com
> To: EUforum <EUforum at topica.com>
> Reply-To: EUforum at topica.com
> Subject: Re: Speed test
> Date: 2/09/2001 12:53:39 PM
>
>
> I'm afraid I don't understand what do you
> call "vertical slicing". If one
> uses parallel sequences, let's say x, y,
> z, then there is only one way to
> refer to each element of these, namely x
> [i], etc. Please give an example of
> what you mean.
> Regards.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Derek Parnell"
> <ddparnell at bigpond.com>
> To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
> Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2001 9:43 PM
> Subject: Re: Speed test
>
>
> > Yes, I often use parallel lists too.
> Vertical slicing becomes an issue
> then.
> > Pity we don't have any neat ways of do
> that yet.
> >
I'm sorry about the obscure reference. By the term "vertical slice", I'm
referring to the ability to create a new sequence based on the n'th element
of a set of sequences.
Two forms of this come to immediate mind...
a) Where you have a disjoint set of sequences eg x,y,z.
sequence result
result = vertslice( {x,y,z}, 2)
which would set the 'result' sequence to have three elements, namely the 2nd
element of x,y, and z respectively.
b) Where you manage a set of related sequences that are already contained in
a sequence.
sequence result
result = vertslice( x, 2)
which would set the 'result' sequence to length(x) elements, namely the 2nd
element of each subsequence of x.
As you can see, the two are very similar with the only difference being how
your program manages the subsequences.
My use of parallel sequences is mainly so that I can use the fast 'find()'
function rather than loop through subsequences. For example:
Say I have a set of accounts. Each account has a few fields: acctno,
startdate, currbal, custno.
I could store this as a single sequence with each subsequence representing a
record, thus...
sequence accounts
accounts = {{123, 20010831, 5432.10, 99832},
{234, 20010630, 1092.95, 89983},
{345, 20010111, 99.99, 99382}
}
but then searching for customer numbers is a bit slow as I can't use find
effciently.
An alternate is to store the records "vertically".
sequence acctno, startdate, currbal, custno
acctno = {123,234,345}
startdate = {20010831, 20010630, 20010111}
currbal = {5432.10, 1092.95, 99.99}
custno = {99832, 89983, 99382}
This allows me to use find() to quickly locate a customer number. And
vertical slicing would be used to get the complete account record for that
customer.
theCust = find(89983, custno)
accRecord = vertslice( {acctno, startdate, currbal, custno}, theCust)
The main problem with keeping disjoint sequences in this manner is that
updating them becomes a bit of a quality headache. If the individual "field"
sequences were kept in a "file" sequence, then updating becomes a little
simpler.
accounts = {{123,234,345},
{20010831, 20010630, 20010111},
{5432.10, 1092.95, 99.99},
{99832, 89983, 99382}
}
accounts = vertupdate( accounts, theCust, updateRecord)
this way, the "vertupdate()" routine doesn't have to know the names of the
fields.
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Derek.
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2. RE: Re: Speed test
I put vertical sequence slicing on the wishlist every
year or so, but so far to no avail .....
Graeme
3. RE: Re: Speed test
On 3 Sep 2001, at 18:26, Graeme wrote:
>
>
> I put vertical sequence slicing on the wishlist every
> year or so, but so far to no avail .....
What if we added a include that allocated it's own memory, and allowed
access to the var list managed by that include, and vertical slicing? Rather
like mirc does "set", we could do set(sequence varname, object data).
Kat
