hi, Patrick Braga wrote: > I've just begun learning GLib, and I came across Quarks. The > documentation describes them as "association between strings and integer > identifiers. Given either the stringo or the GQuark identifier it is > possible to retrieve the other." > > This seems really useful and all, but I have no idea when this could be > applied. I don't necessarily want code examples, just something like "if > you want to do this then you could use quarks to..."
If you use a hashtable with strings as keys, a lookup on the hashtable would need to compare the strings to find the entry. In some situations you can store the key-strings in objects and in such a situation you better store the quarks and use the quarks as keys in the hashtable. Then the lookup only compares integers. Stefan > > Thanks! > > Patrick Braga > http://theunixgeek.blogspot.com > _______________________________________________ > gtk-app-devel-list mailing list > gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
