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- From: matomira@lig.di.epfl.ch (Fernando D. Mato Mira)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: efficiency of Lisp compared to other progr. lang.?
- Date: 27 Feb 1996 12:18:10 GMT
- Organization: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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- References: <s08enrkxymc.fsf@lox.ICSI.Berkeley.EDU> <4gnu92$ll8@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <1996Feb26.121927.25154@wavehh.hanse.de>
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- In article <1996Feb26.121927.25154@wavehh.hanse.de>, cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer) writes:
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- |> The STL is one of the nicest pieces of C++, IMHO. Used carefully, it
- |> can be very useful to control the performance characteristic of a
- |> program. I'd say "pilot error" or braindead implementation when code
- |> slows down when using STL. Maybe someone could tell them that <MAP> is
- |> not a hashing data type. This alone is the cause of many
- |> slowdowns. People tend to think that a data type such as map is the
- |> fastest possible implementation.
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- So, where are the hash tables in STL then? Or is it broken?
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- Regards,
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