Dean Zobec wrote: > As the project looks like a long term one and I think that fpc urgently > needs a optimized hash table I'll also work on a streamlined hash table > with a chaining technique as a collision resolution scheme and a paging > for the allocation of the nodes in the chains, to have an associative > container that would easily beat the TStringList in search speed when > the number of items added is more than 100.000 (the IndexOf() function > in an unordered TStringList does a linear search).
A good hash class is even a candidate for the classes unit imo. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel