POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Games programmers : Re: Games programmers Server Time
10 Oct 2024 19:23:48 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Games programmers  
From: Mueen Nawaz
Date: 12 Sep 2008 11:53:09
Message: <48ca9065$1@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
>   The difference is that it will use a hash table rather than a binary tree.

	I mistakenly thought the current map already did that...

> In most cases it considerably reduces memory usage and can potentially be
> much faster. (On the downside you have to be able to come up with a
> high-quality hash function for your elements. A poorly designed function
> can make the hash map very slow.)

	So the onus of coming up with a function will be on the user? Will it 
provide some defaults?

-- 
Lisa: Oedipus killed his father and married his mother.
Homer: Who payed for THAT wedding?


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