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Re:Giving up on Julia by eternalban on Friday May 13, 2016 @08:25PM (#11694016)
Isn't that technically a hashtable and not an array?
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Re:Giving up on Julia by bdowling on Friday May 13, 2016 @09:24PM (#11694180)
In Lua the same data structure is used for both. The implementation optimizes the data structure like an array when you use a range of non-negative integers as indexes.
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