Re: Very Large Arrays

[salva]

in reply to Very Large Arrays

Shuffling an array is one of those thinks that can be done much more efficiently in C/XS than in Perl.

I have just uploaded to CPAN Array::Shuffle, that is one or two orders of magnitude faster than List::Util::shuffle or your hand-crafted shuffle implementation in Perl.

It's memory usage is O(1).

(List::Util::shuffle is also implemented in C, but it has the wrong interface from a performance point of view)

[Anonymous Monk]

As List::Util is available separately on CPAN, why didn't you submit a patch to that, so everybody benefits?

[salva]

Because Array::Shuffle functions do the operations in-place for better performance and so they do not really fit inside List::Util, and also because List::Util is famous for refusing to include additional functions (that's why we also have List::MoreUtil).

Besides that, because I also wanted to play with different shuffle algorithms, and so creating a new specialiced module made sense to me.