possible to make expandable arrays/lists
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| is it possible to make expandable arrays or lists? |
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| err, i mean arrays, not lists :) |
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| Yes. Arrays can be expanded by using slices. However it is a very expensive operation, and if done often, a List, an associative array (TMap) or HashMap may be a better datastructure to use, in terms of speed. |
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| ok ill look into it, only using it for the beginning of the program, no while it is running. thx |
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| You could create a list, do any expansion at the beginning of the program then use ListToArray for use within the game/app. |
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| A quite fast way to do dynamic arrays is doing *2 /2 in slicing whenever needed (*2 if you need more slots than your array has, /2 if the half or less is used) |
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