On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 13:49, Robert Dodier <robert.dodier at gmail.com>wrote:
> Well, a "fast array" as created when use_fast_arrays=true is actually
> a Lisp hash table, right?
No. There are two kinds of fast arrays, as documented in ? use_fast_arrays
:
* fixed-size zero-based declared dense array (not a sparse hasharray).
These are Fortran-like arrays with fixed bounds.
* hasharray
Neither kind of fast array is well-integrated into Maxima. But then, the
non-fast arrays are pretty ugly, too....
-s