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4 Sep 2024 21:17:46 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Trolltech doesn't know how amortized time works  
From: Darren New
Date: 2 Nov 2009 22:50:06
Message: <4aefa86e@news.povray.org>
Kevin Wampler wrote:
> In general my experience with using Qt has been extremely positive, so I 
>  would have been surprised had they made a mistake of that magnitude. 

Well, lots of people think that (for example) growing a hash table by adding 
a few thousand buckets each time it fills up amortizes out to O(1), but it 
doesn't.

> Still, I certainly didn't anticipate that the algorithm they use would 
> actually be O(1), so it was quite cool to see that it was.

Honestly, I'm rather impressed they documented it at all. Maybe I'm just 
cynical, tho.

And yes, I'm finding Qt to be sort of "this is the bit that C++ forgot to 
define."  Sort of like how jQuery is "this is what javascript should have 
been in the first place."

Altho I must admit, I occasionally smack my head against the wall repeatedly 
trying to find how to make something work. You *know* it's a simple 
question, but it's just not in the docs.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   I ordered stamps from Zazzle that read "Place Stamp Here".


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