Re: Efficient implementation of associative_property_map

From: okrslar (okrslar_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-03-05 07:50:06

--- In Boost-Users_at_[hidden], Jeff Holle <jeff.holle_at_v...> wrote:
> I'd think a hashed dictionary would be needed for such a large data set.
> There is a caviot though, weither or not a good hash function can be 
> created.
> 
> The good thing is that its easy to experiment with different STL 
> associative containers, as long as you have SGI's STL or a derivative/ 
> or good alternative.
> 
> In SGI, the container is hash_map.

We don't have SGI STL around here. I've seen that before, but I hoped
that there would be an other way than changing my STL version... It's
amazing that there is no hashtable in the stdc++, isn't it?

Martin