Another Python rookie trying to port to C/C++ question.

[Stephen Horne]

On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 15:19:00 -0700, Brian Quinlan <brian at sweetapp.com>
wrote:

>> Well, since I'm not worried about "flexible", have my doubts about the
>> "much slower" part,
>
>Your implementation is O(n) with the number of entries while the Python
>implementation is O(log(n)). If n is small then your implementation
>might be acceptably fast. Can't you just use the STL hash_map template
>class?

Are you sure Python dictionaries are O(log n)? - Remember, they are
based on hashing.

Simple hashing is O(1). Handling of collisions and stuff will affect
that (and I'm no expert on hashing techniques) but I can't help
wondering if you're confusing Pythons hashing with tree-based
techniques.


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Steve Horne

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