Hi Guys, I have a question about efficiency, because I am still extremely green to c programming.
I am writing a function that will loop through all the rooms in an area, check the exits and see if any of the areas attached are owned by the clan attempting to claim. I noticed that there are basically two methods of attacking this. 1 uses a MAX_KEY_HASH, like in exlist. and one that uses a for loop like rlist. Now I am guessing that if I needed to loop through all the vnums, then the hash would be more efficient, but if I only need to check the exits on 100-300 vnums the for would be more efficient. In truth I have no idea of how the hash is moving through memory as compared to the for loop. 1 so my question is which would be more efficient, and would anyone know of a resource that would explain how to use this hash, because I am totally lost. I can hack my way through it very easily, but I would like to start to learn how memory is used and how to make the most efficient use of it. Thanks. Rick.
