[erlang-questions] Trie NIFs

[Jon Watte]

Why does it have to be NIF? On the surface, that looks like a data
structure that might actually work reasonably well as an Erlang native
library. (Modification generates log-N garbage)

Sincerely,

jw


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On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 8:43 AM, ori brost <oribrost@REDACTED> wrote:
> I'm looking for a trie NIF library that can support strings as trie
> tokens, and basic pattern matching with a '.' like wildcard (i.e. If /
> is the trie separator and the tree contains 3 entries: /usr/bin,
> /usr/include/X12/XTrans, /usr/include/X11/Xtrans, then I can do
>
> trie:get_all(["usr", "include", '.', "XTrans"])
>
> and it will return
>
> [["usr","include","X11","Xtrans"],
>  ["usr","include","X12","Xtrans"]]
>
> It would also be nice to have a
>
> trie:get_single(["usr","include", '.', "XTrans"])
>
> that returns only one of the matching entries
>
> Does anyone know of such a NIF library? Or something similar enough
> that I can modify it for these needs?
>
> Regards, OriB.
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