Re: What do you call software that detects and/or adapts to changingconditions?

Scott Meyers wrote:

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Which reminds me. Does anybody know of data structures that
internally readjust themselves based on the data they are dealing
with? I can imagine a data store that starts off with a linked
list, then turns into a BST when the data gets too large, then
maybe into a hash table at some point. Maybe some scripting
languages implement identifier lookup this way?

My hashlib adapts itself to the count of items stored, up to a
certain limit (which is easily raised). See:

<http://cbfalconer.home.att.net/download/hashlib.zip>

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