[Haskell-cafe] Pure hashtable library

[Bayley, Alistair]

> From: haskell-cafe-bounces at haskell.org 
> [mailto:haskell-cafe-bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Davie
> 
> 	>   Much better efficiency in what way?
> 
> 	instead of going through many levels of tree/trie, 
> lookup function will just select array element by hash value 
> and look through a few elements in assoc list:
> 
> 	data HT a b = HT (a->Int)               -- hash function
> 	                 (Array Int [(a,b)])
> 
> 	HT.lookup (HT hash arr) a   =   List.lookup (arr!hash a) a
> 
> Which makes two assumptions.  One is that your array is big 
> enough (believable), and the other, that your font is big enough.


> ... and the other, that your font is big enough.

Que? This is lost on me. Care to explain?

Alistair
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