[erlang-questions] orddict (was Re: OO programming style in Erlang?)

[Ulf Wiger]

Den 2007-01-25 03:26:16 skrev Richard A. O'Keefe <ok@REDACTED>:

> The orddict module is extremely unusual in having the same interface
> as the dict module.

So does the ordsets module have the same interface as the sets module.


>  However, it does NOT have the same PERFORMANCE
> characteristics.  So once again, if you want to have any idea how well
> your code is likely to work, you had BETTER know which version you are
> using.  (And wouldn't it be nice if the documentation said something
> about performance?)  In fact, there really aren't that many places that
> you would want to use orddict at all.

I can think of one good reason to use ordsets/orddict: debugging.

It is decidedly more enjoyable to watch (trace/debugging)
printouts of ordsets and orddicts compared to sets/dicts.
Pretty-printing of large dicts in the shell is in fact
everything but pretty.

Personally, I use ordsets quite often. I seldomly use orddict,
however, but if I do it is exactly for the reason above, and
in cases where performance is not critical.

BR,
Ulf W
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Ulf Wiger