Nitpick: O(m+n) where m>n is just O(m). The point is, the operation is of linear order in the larger number of items.
Also, this is
computationally O(1), but the original post asks for memory usage, not computation. I'm not a high enough level monk to know what the memory usage of arrays vs. hashes is, but I would hazard a guess that unless you're using an embedded environment or something else with very little available memory, that at 10k items you don't need to care too much about that.
Ben
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