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From: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>
To: Xavier Leroy <xavier.leroy@inria.fr>
Cc: Oliver Bandel <oliver@first.in-berlin.de>, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Should be INSIDE STANDARD-LIB: Hashtbl.keys
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 13:29:06 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040423182906.GB4117@excelhustler.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040423145141.B3686@pauillac.inria.fr>

On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 02:51:41PM +0200, Xavier Leroy wrote:
> With your specification (no repetitions in the list), that function
> would run in quadratic time, which is a sure sign that lists aren't
> the right data structure here.  (More generally speaking, "lists
> without repetitions" is almost always the wrong data structure.)

But perhaps you don't really care how fast it runs, since your entire
program consumes about 1/10 of a CPU second anyway?

-- John

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-04-23 18:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-21  1:19 Oliver Bandel
2004-04-21  8:39 ` Richard Jones
2004-04-21  9:13 ` Martin Jambon
2004-04-23 12:51 ` Xavier Leroy
2004-04-23 13:05   ` Jean-Baptiste Rouquier
2004-04-23 16:04     ` Xavier Leroy
2004-04-23 18:21       ` Jon Harrop
2004-04-23 21:31         ` Jon Harrop
2004-04-23 21:53           ` John Goerzen
2004-04-26  6:28           ` Florian Hars
2004-04-23 18:29       ` John Goerzen
     [not found]         ` <20040423190710.GA1506@first.in-berlin.de>
2004-04-23 20:42           ` John Goerzen
2004-04-23 15:03   ` Richard Jones
2004-04-24  1:58     ` skaller
2004-04-24  9:20       ` Nicolas Cannasse
2004-04-24 19:26         ` skaller
2004-04-26  7:29       ` Jean-Christophe Filliatre
2004-04-23 16:06   ` Brian Hurt
2004-04-23 16:31     ` Martin Jambon
2004-04-23 17:27     ` Christoph Bauer
2004-04-23 18:29   ` John Goerzen [this message]
     [not found]     ` <20040423191010.GB1506@first.in-berlin.de>
2004-04-23 20:41       ` John Goerzen
     [not found]         ` <20040424080904.GA821@first.in-berlin.de>
2004-04-24 20:59           ` John Goerzen
2004-04-25  8:12             ` Oliver Bandel
2004-04-23 18:28 ` John Goerzen

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