Most efficient solution?

Alexandre Fayolle alf at leo.logilab.fr
Mon Jul 16 13:11:34 EDT 2001


On 16 Jul 2001 11:57:13 -0400, Alex <new_name at mit.edu> wrote:
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>Oh, I'd thought hash lookups were constant time.  That's interesting.

Well, there goes my credibility. Of course hash lookups are more or less 
constant time. I've been working with the mapping types in C++ STL which
are binary trees, and therefore have log(n) access time. 

Please accept my apologies for replying before having completed the context
switch.

Alexandre Fayolle
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