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@@ -13,6 +13,13 @@ it added a bunch of code that was unrelated to the challenge itself. Hence, I extracted the logic into this library and tuned things down from the lessons I learnt along the way. +Moreover, you could also use this library to keep track of small lists, but you +have to keep in mind that pointer arithmetics and bound checks can hinder +performance. In other words, if you have a small list (less or equal than what +it can be addressed with an 8-bit index), then it's not worth the trouble: there +are other more performant ways to achieve the same thing. In short, this library +is useful only when indexing this list requires 16-bit arithmetic. + It's all pretty simple but being assembly code it comes with some gotchas that you need to be aware of. @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ ;; List provides the scope for the variables and subroutines that have been ;; defined in order to maintain and manipulate big lists on the NES. ;; -;; This library can also work for smaller list but there are other more +;; This library can also work for smaller lists but there are other more ;; performant ways to achieve the same thing. Thus, use this library only if you ;; need to have a list that may store more than 255 bytes and indexing in the ;; usual ways might be a problem otherwise. |