hashing for lookup. where key will be the tinyurl generated and value will be the actual url. We need to lookup the actual url everytime a client queries with a tinyurl. The question is how will you make this search faster.
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 10:17 PM, vaibhav agrawal <agrvaib...@gmail.com>wrote: > Why to do hashing?? rather generate a unique id everytime... > > > On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 9:50 PM, Nate <nate.archibal...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> How will you design a site similar to tinyurl.com? >> Simple hashing may require a lot of space, and collisions is another >> issue. Any other approch other than just hashing? >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Algorithm Geeks" group. >> To post to this group, send email to algogeeks@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> algogeeks+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en. >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Algorithm Geeks" group. > To post to this group, send email to algogeeks@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > algogeeks+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Algorithm Geeks" group. To post to this group, send email to algogeeks@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to algogeeks+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en.
