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

2000-10-18 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

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 wo