Re: How to use associative arrays in Ada 2005?


Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:

That depends on each concrete case. Arrays of arrays have advantages and
disadvantages. It is to expect a performance penalty in terms of both space
and time for an hash of hash of hash vs. simple hash. Clearly, instead of
one look-up you are doing three.

Yawn. A hash-table look-up is O(1). It's like trying to argue that
you'll lose weight by only eating 1 pea instead of 3 peas for dinner...

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