avenj/list-objects-withutils — pull request #2 by tobyink (2013-09-04 16:25:14+00:00)
Title: Tied typed array

This introduces an extra dependency (Type::Tie, which itself has a dependency on Hash::FieldHash), so I'd certainly understand if you didn't want to accept it.

However, I think it has some advantages over the current typed array implementation:

* It's about 60% faster, according to my very basic benchmarking of
```perl
my $arr = array_of(Int, 0..99);
$arr->push(0..9) for 0..99
```
* It makes List::Objects::WithUtils::Array::Typed into a fairly trivial subclass of List::Objects::WithUtils::Array; apart from the constructor you no longer need to override any methods. (I think this is the main reason for the speed-up.)
* This is the reason I implemented it to begin with: **using the `@{}` overload no longer bypasses the type checks and coercions**, so people can happily do `push @{$typedarray}, $value`.