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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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Darren New <dnew@san.rr.com> writes:

> Stephen Leake wrote:
> > This is true; we should allow for different implementations. However,
> > I seriously doubt anyone would implement a non-sorted map for a
> > serious application.
> 
> I think there are *tons* of applications that use unsorted maps, i.e.,
> hash tables. Entire file systems have been built on same, for example.
> If the key is an arbitrary value (e.g., some random token used merely to
> identify the object, like a social-security-number) then there's little
> point in sorting the values. Of course, if you ever need it sorted,
> chances are you want to keep it sorted. But AFAIK, none of the scripting
> languages (Tcl, Perl, Python) have sorts for their
> internally-implemented maps.

And they all live with O (n) time? amazing ! :).

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-- Stephe