On Apr 21, 2006, at 9:19 PM, Jonathan Ellis wrote:
However, PHP is brain-damaged and implements lists as hashes whose
keys
are the counting numbers. (In PHP terminology, both lists and hashes
are "arrays.") So in PHP, looking something up in a hash _is_ always
faster than searching a list, since the search is a series of hash
lookups.
Wow, that is kind of brain-damaged. The moral of the story is that
when using a high-level language, you need to know the implementation
details before you can perform a meaningful performance analysis.
--Levi
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