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From: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Tim Schumacher <timschumi@gmx.de>,
	gitster@pobox.com, pclouds@gmail.com
Subject: Re: ordered string-list considered harmful, was Re: [PATCH v3] Allow aliases that include other aliases
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2018 09:20:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87in3hrcya.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180907063241.GA172953@aiede.svl.corp.google.com>


On Fri, Sep 07 2018, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

> Jeff King wrote:
>
>> I don't see any point in generating a sorted list and _then_ making an
>> auxiliary hashmap. My idea was that if you're using a sorted string-list
>> for lookup, then you can replace the whole thing with a hash (inserting
>> as you go, rather than sorting at the end).
>
> What if I'm sorting a string list in preparation for emitting a sorted
> list, and I *also* want to perform lookups in that same list?  In
> other words:

If this turns out to be a common use-case perhaps the easiest way to
support that would be to make the hashmap (optionally?) ordered, as Ruby
1.9 did with their hash implementation:
https://www.igvita.com/2009/02/04/ruby-19-internals-ordered-hash/

  reply	other threads:[~2018-09-07  7:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-06 19:12 ordered string-list considered harmful, was Re: [PATCH v3] Allow aliases that include other aliases Jeff King
2018-09-06 19:20 ` Jeff King
2018-09-06 23:50   ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-09-07  3:24     ` Jeff King
2018-09-07  6:32       ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-09-07  7:20         ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [this message]
2018-09-07  7:23           ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-09-08 16:49             ` brian m. carlson
2018-09-07 14:48         ` Jeff King
2018-09-06 20:04 ` Stefan Beller
2018-09-06 20:49   ` Jeff King
2018-09-06 20:54     ` Stefan Beller
2018-09-07  3:12       ` Jeff King

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