-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Haley wrote: > Tyler Earman wrote: >> Hmm these seem like good options. I was hoping to have a more portable >> algorithm (language-wise), but its not necessary really. As long as the >> runtime performance is around O(n*logn) or better. > > I'm not quite sure what you mean by more portable; I can't think of any > more portable structure than a hash table. > > Andrew.. > I agree with Andrew your best bet is a hash table, its a nice data structure to implement because its simple to understand you just need to find a good hash function. But its worth it because its very fast and works well. If you want examples if you take a poke at git-core hash a nice example. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkqTBtMACgkQAhcOgIaQQ2GXrQCeOqh/quMP5aHQbXc151kumQ+O 7fQAn3VkM93H724U6CY+83WUlobUF10z =sn2p -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----