Re: Ranking
Jani Tiainen wrote:
Ishwor Gurung kirjoitti:
Crouchez wrote:
What's the best way to have in-memory ranking? For example each
element is
counted for the number of times it appears and ranks are updated with
every count. Eg
element 1, 4 times
element 4, 3 times
element 3, 2 times
element 2, 1 times
Is this your homework or something ?
Can I use a hashtable type for this?
Yes, sure. Hashtables are nothing but a mapping system where a=>b (map
keys
to values) so if you take a bit of time and play around with the the
collections API, it'll work. you'd probably need it when in above code
after "found[i]++;". :)
I think "priority queue" is what Crouchez is after. And that is part of
java collections framework since 1.5
Also, watch out for the term "hash table" in Java; it might lead you to use
java.util.Hashtable, which would be suboptimal in most cases. Declare the
variable as Map when such things are needed, and pick the appropriate
implementation thereof, such as HashMap, or very rarely, Hashtable.
Similarly with Vector vs. ArrayList.
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