Thank you for that insight.  :)

On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 4:50 AM, Heinrich Apfelmus <apfelmus@quan...
> wrote:

>
> Creating the vector still takes time proportional to the length of the
> vector. In fact, it appears that in your example, the  vector  packages
> optimizes the creation time to create only up to the element that you
> actually demand.
>
> The linear time you're seeing is not the result of an inefficiency of
> vector indexing, but the result of an efficiency in vector creation.
>
>
> Best regards,
> Heinrich Apfelmus
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Regards,
KC