From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ac39a12d5faf5b14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-21 11:49:29 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!cox.net!news2.east.cox.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3CC30A00.7090007@telepath.com> From: Ted Dennison User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20011221 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Grace and Maps (was Re: Development process in the Ada community) References: <3CB46975.90408@snafu.de> <3CBAFFEE.2080708@snafu.de> <4519e058.0204171036.6f0a7394@posting.google.com> <3CBDD795.4060706@snafu.de> <4519e058.0204180800.44fac012@posting.google.com> <3CBF0341.8020406@mail.com> <4519e058.0204190529.559a47ae@posting.google.com> <3CC1C6B3.6060306@telepath.com> <3CC21747.5000501@telepath.com> <3CC27E9F.9070803@mail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 18:49:28 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.12.51.201 X-Complaints-To: abuse@cox.net X-Trace: news2.east.cox.net 1019414968 68.12.51.201 (Sun, 21 Apr 2002 14:49:28 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 14:49:28 EDT Organization: Cox Communications Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22869 Date: 2002-04-21T18:49:28+00:00 List-Id: Hyman Rosen wrote: > Simon Wright wrote: > >> I was quite surprised by the idea that a map had to (be|behave as >> though it was) implemented using a sorted vector of keys .. > > > C++ maps are pretty much universally implemented using > red-black trees. I was quite surprised by the idea that I've never implemented a general Map myself, or looked at one. I was picturing something along the lines of a binary tree, perhaps balanced if you want to get sexy. So that makes sense.