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I will be creating a project that will use dictionary lookups and inserts quite a bit. Is this something to be concerned about?
Also, if I do benchmarking and such and it is really bad, then what is the best way of replacing dictionary with something else? Would using an array with "hashed" keys even be faster? That wouldn't help on insert time though will it?
Also, I don't think I'm micro-optimizing because this really will be a significant part of code on a production server, so if this takes an extra 100ms to complete, then we will be looking for new ways to handle this.
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Dictionary uses hashing to search for the data. Each item in the dictionary is stored in buckets of items that contain the same hash. It's a lot quicker.
The reason is dictionaries are very fast, implemented using a technique called hashing, which allows us to access a value very quickly. By contrast, the list of tuples implementation is slow. If we wanted to find a value associated with a key, we would have to iterate over every tuple, checking the 0th element.
Dictionary in . NET represents a collection of key/value pairs. In this tutorial, learn how to create a dictionary, add items to a dictionary, remove items from a dictionary, and other dictionary operations using C# and . NET. C# Dictionary class is a generic collection of keys and values pair of data.
A dictionary is 6.6 times faster than a list when we lookup in 100 items.
You are micro-optimizing. Do you even have working code yet? Remember, "If it doesn't work, it doesn't matter how fast it doesn't work." (Mich Ravera) http://www.codingninja.co.uk/best-programmers-quotes/.
You have no idea where the bottlenecks will be, and already you're focused on Dictionary. What if the problem is somewhere else?
How do you know how the Dictionary class is implemented? Maybe it already uses an array with hashed keys!
P.S. It's really ".NET Dictionaries", not "C# Dictionaries", because C# is just one of several programming languages that use the framework.
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