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Date: | 2007-01-14 (18:31) |
From: | Jon Harrop <jon@f...> |
Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] Ocaml compiler features |
On Sunday 14 January 2007 18:21, Edgar Friendly wrote: > Yes to the first sentence, I think no on the second. Map and Hashtbl > are very good, but I think I really want an array. For an ('a, 'b) Map, > this is for situations where the set of 'a is fixed at design time, I > don't see the overhead of Maps and Hashtbls being appropriate. Atomic > variants already have unique ids from 0 to n-1, so they seem quite > appropriate for this kind of task. You should at least measure the overhead of using a hash table before trying to address the overhead... -- Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. Objective CAML for Scientists http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/ocaml_for_scientists