I'd like to complain about that, too ;)

Louis Wasserman
[email protected]
http://profiles.google.com/wasserman.louis


On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 9:02 PM, Edward Kmett <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 7:27 PM, Sterling Clover <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Johan Tibell <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Louis Wasserman
>> > <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> A couple thoughts:
>> >> size takes O(n).  That's just depressing.  Really.
>> >
>> > This applies to all the container types. We could support O(1) size at
>> > the cost of slowing down e.g lookup, insert, and delete a little bit.
>> > I haven't measure how much yet. Would it be worth it?
>>
>> Getting a bit picky, but for the record, Data.Map and Data.Sequence
>> provide O(1) size, and Data.HashTable I believe stores the information
>> but doesn't expose it from its tiny API. That's not an argument either
>> way for what a HashMap should do, however :-)
>>
>
> NB: Data.IntMap, which Data.HashMap is based on, actually only provides
> O(n) size.
>
> -Edward
>
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