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From: Oleg <oleg_inconnu@myrealbox.com>
To: "Nicolas Cannasse" <warplayer@free.fr>, <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] sorting Hashtbl.t
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 09:44:56 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200208121344.JAA29114@dewberry.cc.columbia.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <001501c241e5$df9c64c0$0700a8c0@warp>

On Monday 12 August 2002 05:51 am, Nicolas Cannasse wrote:
> > [1] One could of course copy elements to a list or an array, then sort
> > and iterate the latter, but I suppose it is inefficient, as hash table
>
> elements
>
> > are "almost sorted".
>
> In general, Hashtbl are not "almost sorted", as one cannot garantee that
> key(x) < key(y) => x < y.

I meant sorting by key (or iterating Hashtbl in the order of increasing 
_keys_).

> If you want such a behavior, you should use a Binary Search Tree instead.

Regards
Oleg
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-08-12 13:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-08-12  1:08 Oleg
2002-08-12  9:51 ` Nicolas Cannasse
2002-08-12 13:44   ` Oleg [this message]
2002-08-13  7:45     ` Igor I. Harzmann
2002-08-12 10:10 ` Yann Régis-Gianas
2002-08-14 22:16   ` John Max Skaller
2002-08-14 23:13     ` Alexander V.Voinov
2002-08-15 16:43     ` Brian Rogoff
2002-08-16 17:47 Brian Rogoff

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