From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: how to access a large datastructure efficiently?
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:29:58 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwveijza9x8.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.2247.1267667449.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> I have a large list of items which I want to access. The items are in
> sequential order, but many are missing in between, like:
> (1 8 17 23 25 34 45 47 50) [in reality, there is a value associated
> with this, but I took it out for simplicity]
If those integer-valued keys are really positions in a buffer, then
a good solution might be to store this "list" as a text property.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-05 0:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2010-03-04 10:36 ` how to access a large datastructure efficiently? Alan Mackenzie
2010-03-04 20:22 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-03-05 0:29 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2010-03-04 1:50 Christian Wittern
2010-03-04 6:59 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2010-03-04 7:25 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2010-03-04 8:13 ` Andreas Röhler
2010-03-04 11:00 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2010-03-04 15:49 ` Andreas Röhler
2010-03-04 16:09 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2010-03-04 8:15 ` Christian Wittern
2010-03-04 10:24 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2010-03-04 15:01 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2010-03-04 16:49 ` Andreas Politz
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