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From: Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: Grace and Maps (was Re: Development process in the Ada community)
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Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen <oleh@vlinux.voxelvision.no> writes:

> For general use, I would certainly prefer a good tree implementation,
> but when you need the utmost speed and have a fixed size data set, I
> would go for the hash table.

So we need to allow for both:

Grace.Maps.Tree_implementation
Grace.Maps.Hash_Implementation

Hash_implementation will take a generic parameter giving the max N of
the data set, or the size of the hash table, or something similar.

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-- Stephe