Not much to the point, but I couldn't let this pass:
porphyry5 said:
>... I used a plain numeric index as I figured it must use an address array to reference the words array, and with a numeric index I could use a binary search pattern to locate the word. I think an associative array must use a linear search...
Associative array implementations usually use some kind of hashing, with mostly constant time look ups. You can tell if you iterate over the keys and they come in some weird order.
Regards, John Little
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