Re: [boost] hash table library proposal (was Extensions in Boost.Compatibility)

From: Yakov Bachmutsky (yakov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-12-12 09:15:09

I personally would like that very much, and as a matter of fact I was going
to write a hash class of my own but didn't have the time yet...
There are some perfect hash functions on the web, my favorite is
http://www.burtleburtle.net/bob/
Yakov

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeremy Maitin-Shepard" <jbms_at_[hidden]>
To: <boost_at_[hidden]>
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 3:17 AM
Subject: [boost] hash table library proposal (was Extensions in
Boost.Compatibility)

> I forgot to mention in my previous post the following proposed ideas:
>
> A hash map and hash multimap in which a single value type is specified
along
> with a traits class that is used to extract the key from the value type.
The
> std::pair-specific hash_map and hash_multimap would then be based upon
this
> generic implementation.
>
> If there is interest in this library, I will create an implementation.
>