On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 19:24:07 -0400, Roy Smith wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>,
> Marko Rauhamaa <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Anyway, this whole debate is rather unnecessary since every developer
>> is supposed to have both weapons in their arsenal.
>
> The problem with having a choice is that it opens up the possibility of
> making the wrong one :-)
>
> As this discussion has shown, figuring out whether a hash table or a
> tree is better for a given problem is non-trivial. My guess is that if
> you gave 1000 typical developers both data structures and let them pick
> freely, the number of cases where it really mattered and the developer
> picked the right one would be approximately equal to the number of cases
> where they picked the wrong one.
Perhaps you are not familiar with the 50/50/90 rule?
Given any 50/50 choice you are 90% certain to pick the wrong one :-)
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