16 Jul
2010
16 Jul
'10
7:17 a.m.
On 15/07/2010 06:12, Jim Apple wrote:
In other some standard libraries (Java, OCaml), hash tables can be created with a user-supplied size. This avoids some resizing for users who know they will be inserting a lot of data.
Data.HashTable does not expose a function to do this. This proposal changes that.
For a dictionary of 5 million strings, this patch saves me about 33% of the total execution time. For 10 million strings, this patch saves me 50% of the total execution time.
+1 Simon