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- From: kanze@gabi-soft.fr (J. Kanze)
- Message-ID: <KANZE.96Mar15151356@gabi.gabi-soft.fr>
- X-Original-Date: 15 Mar 1996 14:13:56 GMT
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- Date: 15 Mar 96 15:08:14 GMT
- Approved: fjh@cs.mu.oz.au
- Newsgroups: comp.std.c++
- Subject: Re: String value of enum
- Organization: GABI Software, Sarl.
- References: <4i5sf3$89c@hermes.is.co.za> <Do81tp.H9u@rsvl.unisys.com>
- <4i8a38$2qq@engnews1.Eng.Sun.COM> <4i9cn4$7cf@ns.hcsc.com>
- In-Reply-To: bill@amber.ssd.hcsc.com's message of 14 Mar 96 16:29:27 GMT
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- In article <4i9cn4$7cf@ns.hcsc.com> bill@amber.ssd.hcsc.com (Bill
- Leonard) writes:
-
- |> In article <4i8a38$2qq@engnews1.Eng.Sun.COM>, clamage@Eng.Sun.COM
- |> (Steve Clamage) writes:
-
- |> > The more general case of non-contiguous enum values could be handled
- |> > by a table of value/string pairs and a lookup function. The standard
- |> > "map" class will do it all for you.
-
- |> But using the map class would require initialization at runtime, wouldn't
- |> it? That increases the startup cost of the program. Using a sorted array
- |> of value/string pairs (statically initialized) and a binary search would
- |> probably be more efficient.
-
- At start-up, yes. If the map is large enough for this to make a
- difference, however, it's likely that the difference between the O(ln n)
- binary search and a O(k) hash table look-up is also significant.
-
- Given that the enum labels are all in the source code, and programmers
- being on the whole a lazy group of people, the resulting tables are
- typically so small that it really doesn't make a difference, especially
- since anytime that the conversion is necessary, output will follow.
- (I'm still using a linear search in my implementation, and it has yet to
- cause a performance bottleneck.)
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