Re: [go-nuts] Need a way to check only key exist or not? without value?

2020-04-29 Thread Brian Candler
On Wednesday, 29 April 2020 01:33:55 UTC+1, Shishir Verma wrote: > > I think it is kind of intuitive that empty struct takes 0 bytes > To me it wasn't intuitive, but that's because my brain instinctively read it as "interface {}" and not "struct {}". It's clear that a struct{} must occupy zero

Re: [go-nuts] Need a way to check only key exist or not? without value?

2020-04-28 Thread Shishir Verma
I think it is kind of intuitive that empty struct takes 0 bytes whereas a bool variable takes 1 byte in memory and hence a map with struct{} values would consume lesser memory than the other. I tried checking this using code and Randall's point proves: mapmem.go: package main import (

Re: [go-nuts] Need a way to check only key exist or not? without value?

2020-04-28 Thread adithyasashasai
is it mentioned anywhere such that "map[string]struct{}" is efficeient? On Tuesday, April 28, 2020 at 10:23:08 AM UTC+5:30, Randall O'Reilly wrote: > > I think map[string]struct{} takes no storage for the value and is the most > efficient way to do this. > > - Randy > > > On Apr 27, 2020, at

Re: [go-nuts] Need a way to check only key exist or not? without value?

2020-04-27 Thread Randall O'Reilly
I think map[string]struct{} takes no storage for the value and is the most efficient way to do this. - Randy > On Apr 27, 2020, at 7:20 PM, Shishir Verma wrote: > > I think the idiomatic way to implement a set in golang is to use a map with > bool values. Here is an example from effective go

Re: [go-nuts] Need a way to check only key exist or not? without value?

2020-04-27 Thread burak serdar
On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 10:46 AM wrote: > > Basically i need a slice with indexed values, so that i can check only > existence. > or a map with only keys? Use a map with struct{} values: m:=make(map[keyType]struct{}) Then you can add keys by: m[key]=struct{}{} and check existence using:

[go-nuts] Need a way to check only key exist or not? without value?

2020-04-27 Thread adithyasashasai
Basically i need a slice with indexed values, so that i can check only existence. or a map with only keys? How it can be done? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it,