William A. Rowe, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>From: "Brian Pane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 2:23 PM
>
>
>>The attached patches change the apr_table_t implementation from
>>a linear list to a hash table (not an apr_hash_t, though!). With
>>this change, I'm seeing a ~3% improvement in throughput when
>>delivering a 0-byte file over the loopback on Linux. (I used this
>>0-byte test case to measure the inherent overhead in the httpd, without
>>transmission time clouding the results.)
>>
>This breaks ordering, correct? If so, -1. The apr_table_t must remain
>ordered as pushed onto the array.
>
It preserves ordering within the value list for a key: if you push multiple
values for a key, they'll remain in the order in which they were pushed.
It doesn't guarantee ordering of different keys, though.
--Brian
