item access time: sets v. lists
Paul McGuire
ptmcg at austin.rr._bogus_.com
Wed Oct 4 13:54:07 EDT 2006
"Neil Cerutti" <horpner at yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:slrnei7sc2.fs.horpner at FIAD06.norwich.edu...
> Look at the code again. It's not testing what it says it's
> testing.
>
It isnt?
The only quibble I can see is that there really is no "first" element in a
set. I picked the "0 in set" and "0 in list" to pick the fastest case for
list, which does a linear search through the list elements.
Where did I go wrong on the test descriptions?
-- Paul
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