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Chris Pressey cpressey at catseye.mine.nu
Sun Mar 7 10:59:26 PST 2004


On Sun, 7 Mar 2004 20:46:32 +0200 (EET)
Narvi <narvi at haldjas.folklore.ee> wrote:

> 
> On Sat, 6 Mar 2004, Chris Pressey wrote:
> 
> >
> > And, yeah.  A hash table is really nothing by itself.  It's just a way
> > of taking a long list (or other structure) and splitting it up into N
> > smaller structures.  If your lists are never that long in the first
> > place, there's no point.
> >
> 
> URKH! No it doesn't. Or rather, it should -

I don't know what you are referring to here.

> there are almost no good
> reasons to use a naive chaining hash table.

I did say list *(or other structure)*.

-Chris


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