Re: stl and set
In article <b86dncvxrtNk247VnZ2dnUVZ_i2dnZ2d@earthlink.com>, Jeff Baker
<algorthjb@gmail.com> wrote:
The main advantage is the efficiency of searching, which is of
logarithmic complexity in associative containers such as set and map,
compared to the linear search time of a list.
How do you mean "efficiency" in associative container to a binary search of
the sequence constainers?
Set requires preservation of iterator and reference validity of
iterators or references pointing into set until what they refer to
is erased from the container. That is I can keep an iterator to or a
reference to an entry in the set and not search for it again as long as
the entry is still in the set. [The data does not move around, internal
pointers change, but the data is in the same place] . Why most
implementations
[all that I know of] use a search tree is historical since the
original HP STL did and it meets the requirements, and is readily
available ]
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