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Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2014 14:37:39 -0700
Subject: Re: Balanced trees
From: Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com>
To: Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net>
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On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 2:32 PM, Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> wrote:
> Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com>:
>
>> This is not just a detail: O(1) tends to be beat O(logn) pretty easily
>> for large n.
>
> There is no O(1) hash table.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2771368/can-hash-tables-really-be-o1