...pending - Amortized O(1) (sometimes resizing the hashtable is required; usually only insertion is required) Prepending - O(n) via unshift, since it requires reassigning all the indexes Insertion - Amortized O(1) if the value does not exist. O(n) if you want to shift existing values (Eg, using splice...

...r The cost, however, is not trivial to measure: The side-table is generally cold, and thus fetching it from memory takes a long time Determining the right handler involves RTTI: many RTTI descriptors to fetch, scattered around memory, and complex operations to run (basically a dynamic_cast test ...

... @Daniel, but this question is specifically about bash – John La Rooy Aug 19 '13 at 3:38 3 ...

... Many answers seem to focus on the ability to fall through as the reason for requiring the break statement. I believe it was simply a mistake, due largely because when C was designed there was not nearly as much experience with how these constructs would be used. Peter ...

I'm really trying to understand the difference between OpenID and OAuth? Maybe they're two totally separate things? 21 Answ...

...t a native one. --EDIT-- It appears things have changed and there is actually no difference between ActionBarSherlock and the Action Bar Compatibility anymore. Please read the comments below for details. --EDIT-- After having used both now, I can say that I actually prefer ActionBarSherlock to A...

It seems to me like when people talk about algorithm complexity informally, they talk about big-oh. But in formal situations, I often see big-theta with the occasional big-oh thrown in. I know mathematically what the difference is between the two, but in English, in what situation would using big-oh...

There's a good discussion of Generics and what they really do behind the scenes over at this question , so we all know that Vector<int[]> is a vector of integer arrays, and HashTable<String, Person> is a table of whose keys are strings and values Person s. However, what stumps me ...

...); } log(review); <pre id="out"></pre> But you specifically want to use ES5 Array.prototype.forEach, so what can we do? Well we need to use Array.prototype.slice to make a shallow copy of the array and Array.prototype.reverse so we can work in reverse to mutate the original array...

... It allows you to provide a default value if the key is missing: dictionary.get("bogus", default_value) returns default_value (whatever you choose it to be), whereas dictionary["bogus"] would raise a KeyError. If omitted...