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Re: avl-trees vs. hashes

On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Klaus Schilling wrote:

> Harvey J. Stein writes:
>  > 
>  > Nope.  Resizing hashtables are still O(1) for insertions.  See the
>  > previous discussions & 3 independently posted analyses.  God, I wish
>  > this list had a shorter turn-around time.
> 
> Even in the worst case, when all entries drop into the same bucket?
> 

ai me!  everyone's so interested in theory here!  The thing is, in
practice, the worst case scenario is just never going to happen (assuming
your hasher is wasn't designed by crack-smokin' baboons  ;)

>      Klaus Schilling
>