Re: RFC 124 usefulness implementation suggestion

2000-10-18 Thread Bart Lateur
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000 11:28:37 PDT, Carl Wuebker wrote: I'd like to put in a pitch for RFC 124 in Perl 6. Balanced binary trees (such as AVL or red-black trees) allow O(log2 n) insertion, searching, outputting ranges of keys deletion. I wouldn't want to touch existing Perl hashes, but it

Re: RFC 124 usefulness implementation suggestion

2000-10-18 Thread Ken Fox
Bart Lateur wrote: But isn't there going to be a large overhead, in populating such a "hash"? If you need an ordered data structure the overhead would be lower than using a hash. Doesn't the tree have to be reorganized every time you add a single new entry? No. Sometimes you may have to

Re: RFC 124 usefulness implementation suggestion

2000-10-17 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 11:28 AM 10/16/00 -0700, Carl Wuebker wrote: I'd like to put in a pitch for RFC 124 in Perl 6. Balanced binary trees (such as AVL or red-black trees) allow O(log2 n) insertion, searching, outputting ranges of keys deletion. I wouldn't want to touch existing Perl hashes, but it would

RFC 124 usefulness implementation suggestion

2000-10-16 Thread Carl Wuebker
I'd like to put in a pitch for RFC 124 in Perl 6. Balanced binary trees (such as AVL or red-black trees) allow O(log2 n) insertion, searching, outputting ranges of keys deletion. I wouldn't want to touch existing Perl hashes, but it would be very useful to be able to associate a sort