[JASS] Quick question about hashtable.

[Geshishouhu]

SaveInteger(hash,parent,child,value)
//Are there limits for "parent" and "child" ?

Are there limits for "parent" and "child" ? I mean a quantity limit.

 

[PurgeandFire]

No. Use whatever keys you want (even negative numbers). I don't remember if you can use keys beyond the key limit of 2147483647 (2^31 - 1), so I advise you to keep it within -2147483647 to 2147483647.

If you mean the number of parent keys/child keys/values you can store, there is likely a limit but it is beyond any practical purpose, so go nuts with it if you'd like.

 

[Geshishouhu]

No. Use whatever keys you want (even negative numbers). I don't remember if you can use keys beyond the key limit of 2147483647 (2^31 - 1), so I advise you to keep it within -2147483647 to 2147483647.

If you mean the number of parent keys/child keys/values you can store, there is likely a limit but it is beyond any practical purpose, so go nuts with it if you'd like.

Thanks for the reply, PnF.
Yea, I mean the number of parent keys/child keys/values, i may need to store lots of coordinates to damage enemies (sort of a fire wall spell like "Blaze" in Diablo 2), so thats why I am asking. So, practically I do not need to worry about hitting the limit? I may store at most 100 coordinates.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Hashtables suffer from O(n) performance degradation when storing a lot of values (order of thousands to millions). This is because they use a non-dynamic bucket array I am guessing so will have a lot of collisions for larger numbers of values.