I suppose I could use a set simply to determine if it was present or not, and then push! to another array if not present... just didn't seem as efficient as what I'm used to...
On Monday, May 18, 2015 at 4:53:02 PM UTC-4, Jameson wrote: > > use a Set? > http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/stdlib/collections/?highlight=set > > On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 4:46 PM Scott Jones <scott.pa...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> I would like to be able to do the following in Julia: >> Take a UInt64 (or UInt128, for that matter), and add it to an array, if >> it is not already present, returning the index. >> (This would be trivial in the language I used to work on, and I think it >> probably is in Julia as well, but I haven't found the right data structure >> yet...) >> What would be the best performing way of handling that? >> What if, instead of an UInt64 or UInt128, I had an array of bytes (like >> 128 or 256)? What would be the best way for that? >> >> Thanks, Scott >> >
