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Re: how to access a large datastructure efficiently?
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: how to access a large datastructure efficiently? |
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Tue, 04 May 2010 15:41:31 -0000 |
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> I have a large list of items which I want to access. The items are in
> sequential order, but many are missing in between, like:
> (1 8 17 23 25 34 45 47 50) [in reality, there is a value associated
> with this, but I took it out for simplicity]
If those integer-valued keys are really positions in a buffer, then
a good solution might be to store this "list" as a text property.
Stefan