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From: Eray Ozkural <exa@kablonet.com.tr>
To: Ville-Pertti Keinonen <will@exomi.com>,
	"Mattias Waldau" <mattias.waldau@abc.se>
Cc: <alc@PublicPropertySoftware.com>,
	"'caml Mailing List''" <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Two types of efficiency (Was Efficiency of 'a list)
Date: Sun, 4 May 2003 15:50:34 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200305041550.34383.exa@kablonet.com.tr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <11CA0EB8-7E04-11D7-A11A-000393863F70@exomi.com>

On Sunday 04 May 2003 10:43, Ville-Pertti Keinonen wrote:
> No.  What you suggested (replace lists with sets, replace arrays with
> maps) would in many places be trading O(1) behavior for O(log n)
> behavior, which certainly doesn't make programs more scalable.

No, it doesn't make sense. It would effectively turn ocaml into an inefficient 
toy language like those "high level languages" that he was talking about.

NO DATA STRUCTURE IS SUITABLE FOR ALL TASKS

Take it from the structure monster,

Cheers,

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-05-04 12:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-02 19:27 [Caml-list] Efficiency of 'a list Eray Ozkural
2003-05-03  5:43 ` Mattias Waldau
2003-05-03  8:16   ` Ville-Pertti Keinonen
2003-05-03 14:12   ` Vitaly Lugovsky
2003-05-03 18:43     ` Mattias Waldau
2003-05-03 20:01       ` Eray Ozkural
2003-05-03 23:17       ` Eray Ozkural
2003-05-04  2:08       ` cashin
2003-05-04  4:08         ` alc
2003-05-04  5:32           ` Ed L Cashin
2003-05-04  6:46           ` [Caml-list] Two types of efficiency (Was Efficiency of 'a list) Mattias Waldau
2003-05-04  7:35             ` John Max Skaller
2003-05-04 11:52               ` Olivier Andrieu
2003-05-05 11:04                 ` John Max Skaller
2003-05-04 16:48               ` brogoff
2003-05-04  7:43             ` Ville-Pertti Keinonen
2003-05-04 12:50               ` Eray Ozkural [this message]
2003-05-04 12:48             ` Eray Ozkural
2003-05-05  7:31             ` Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons
2003-05-05 11:11               ` Mattias Waldau
2003-05-05 13:17                 ` John Max Skaller
2003-05-05 11:49               ` Eray Ozkural
2003-05-05 11:57               ` Yaron M. Minsky
2003-05-05 13:32                 ` John Max Skaller
2003-05-06  2:49                   ` Nicolas Cannasse
2003-05-06 12:30                     ` Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons
2003-05-07  2:05                       ` Nicolas Cannasse
2003-05-05 16:38                 ` Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons
2003-05-05 18:05                   ` Eray Ozkural
2003-05-06 13:28                     ` Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons
2003-05-13 11:35                   ` [Caml-list] Data Structure Libraries (was: Two types of efficiency) Oleg Trott
2003-05-04  7:55           ` [Caml-list] Efficiency of 'a list Ville-Pertti Keinonen
2003-05-04 10:56             ` Neel Krishnaswami
2003-05-04 12:56               ` Eray Ozkural
2003-05-04 13:35                 ` Falk Hueffner
2003-05-04 12:38           ` Eray Ozkural
2003-05-04  8:07         ` Ville-Pertti Keinonen
2003-05-04 15:54           ` Ed L Cashin
2003-05-05 23:52           ` Garry Hodgson
2003-05-03 20:03   ` Eray Ozkural
2003-05-03 21:13 ` Lauri Alanko
2003-05-03 22:03   ` Eray Ozkural

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