On Jan 17, 2008 12:57 PM, Stjepan Rajko <stipe@asu.edu> wrote:
SUGGESTED CHANGES TO THE LIBRARY:
I left out one important suggestion. Joel de Guzman proposed that the library could provide a perfect hashing implementation, which can outperform the c++ switch statement (which in some cases apparently doesn't use perfect hashing): http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2004/08/69787.php Tobias Schwinger also pointed out a self-optimizing alternative: http://osdir.com/ml/parsers.spirit.devel/2006-05/msg00025.html Finally, Hartmut Kaiser seconded the request for perfect hashing, and pointed out that it can be used for more than just integer values (and offered to help!). Just to be clear, while something like this would certainly be an incredible addition to the library (or a useful library in itself), I don't consider it to be a requirement for the acceptance of the Switch library at the mini-review (as no reviewer has expressed any such sentiment). With apologies for leaving this out, Stjepan