From: Martin Jambon <martin_jambon@emailuser.net>
To: Brian Hurt <bhurt@spnz.org>
Cc: Matthieu Sozeau <mattam@altern.org>, <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Map + Set
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 23:47:09 +0800 (HKT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0407262330510.879-100000@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0407261016000.6739-100000@localhost.localdomain>
On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, Brian Hurt wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, Matthieu Sozeau wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 12:01:03PM -0500, Brian Hurt wrote:
> > > On Sun, 25 Jul 2004, Martin Jambon wrote:
> > >
> > > A better interface might be:
> > >
> > > val find: (elt -> int) -> t -> elt
^^^^^^^^^^^^
This is a little unsafe, isn't it? What if you don't respect the ordering
of your set?
> > Why an int ? Isn't a boolean enough ?
>
> Two reasons:
>
> 1) This allows you to use Pervasives.compare (or other compatible
> function) partially applied.
>
> 2) In addition to equality, you also need less than/greater than in order
> to keep the function in O(log N)- which branch do you descend? With just
> equality, you need to do an O(N) exhaustive search.
I think Brian and Matthieu are talking about 2 different things:
(1) Martin and Brian were talking of an O(log n) find just like mem.
(2) Matthieu and others are talking of a search using an
arbitrary predicate just like List.find, in O(n) steps.
Martin
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-26 15:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-25 8:17 Martin Jambon
2004-07-25 16:26 ` Matt Gushee
2004-07-25 17:01 ` Brian Hurt
2004-07-26 10:40 ` Matthieu Sozeau
2004-07-26 15:25 ` Brian Hurt
2004-07-26 15:47 ` Martin Jambon [this message]
2004-07-26 16:26 ` Brian Hurt
2004-07-26 7:43 ` Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons
2004-07-26 16:24 ` Martin Jambon
2004-07-26 16:52 ` Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons
2004-07-27 21:45 ` [Caml-list] Camlp4 help/questions Josh Smith
2004-07-27 22:11 ` Brian Hurt
2004-07-28 1:15 ` Josh Smith
[not found] ` <200407272307.50167.jon@jdh30.plus.com>
2004-07-28 1:38 ` Josh Smith
2004-07-28 8:03 ` Pierre Weis
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