Re: associative array

[Andrew Janke]

On 3/26/20 6:07 PM, Francesco Potortì wrote:
>>> Are there more efficient ways to build and update an associative array?
> 
>> cheating and looking at matlab documentation, they point to Map containers
>> objects as being specifically built for key-value pair mapping, and it
>> appears Octave has a compatible implementation.  see:
>> https://octave.org/doc/v5.2.0/containers_002eMap.html
> 
> Yes, I had seen that by looking for "hash" in the documentation, whose
> index contain an "hash table" entry.  The manual does not explain how to
> use it, so I have neglected it.
> 
> Thank you.  If the slowness turns out ot be unbearable I will consider it.
> 

FWIW: Matlab's containers.Map is a bummer, because it's a
pass-by-reference handle object, so it doesn't play well with normal
Matlab/Octave objects and data structures. I've found that this
limitation makes it basically useless for M-code programming over the
last couple years.

It would be nice if there were a pass-by-value/COW version of
containers.Map. I know that Octave core is shy of "innovating" in
non-Matlab-compatible ways, but maybe an exception should be made here.

Cheers,
Andrew