Actually, using a string as a key in a hash map is nearly as efficient as bare array indexing.
The reason is that hashes for strings are computed when the string is created. On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 7:09 PM, Dmitriy Lyubimov <[email protected]> wrote: > All you say is true. It should be noted that using vector as a key is > innefficient. Similarly to that using String as a key in a map is just > about as inefficient for the same reason. > >
