Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > It is frequently useful to have a fast, generic data > structure mapping keys to values. We already have something > like this in the "decorate" API, but it has two downsides: > > 1. The key type must always be a "struct object *". > > 2. The value type is a void pointer, which means it is > inefficient and cumbersome for storing small values. > One must either encode their value inside the void > pointer, or allocate additional storage for the pointer > to point to. > > This patch introduces a generic map data structure, mapping > keys of arbitrary type to values of arbitrary type. Does the type of keys in a map have to be of the same size, or can a key of a type with variable size (e.g. struct with a flex member at the end)? Same question for the type of values. Is the type of keys in a map required to have a total order over it, or is it suffice only to have equality defined? The latter might matter once we start talking about a huge map that we may not want to hold in-core. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html