2012/1/5 Rico Schüller kgbricola@web.de:
is a name or a handle! So the only option I see is to use the address of the handle as index, which would require a sorted list or something like a rbtree and also would be cpu expensive for comparison if the "index" is in the list. Keep in mind the list could get big and the handles have to be
Actually, as an aside, rb-trees scale pretty well, but they're a relatively big hammer for the kind of problem you're trying to solve.