Re^6: How to check lines that start with the same word then delete one of them

I think your solution works in O(n*log n), because searching an item in a hash takes log n. Am I right? Still much much faster that O(n*n) :)

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Re^7: How to check lines that start with the same word then delete one of them by Laurent_R (Canon) on Apr 10, 2020 at 15:42 UTC
No, a hash lookup is usually O(1), it does take some time, sure, but the time it takes does not depend (generally) on the hash size.	[reply]


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