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Inefficient [NSDictionary containsObjectForKey:] method #5

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nicklockwood opened this issue Jan 4, 2011 · 0 comments
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Inefficient [NSDictionary containsObjectForKey:] method #5

nicklockwood opened this issue Jan 4, 2011 · 0 comments

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Searching the allKeys array will have linear performance degradation with the size of the dictionary since it has to check each item in the array sequentially - checking if [dictionary objectForKey:key] == nil has constant time performance regardless of array size and would be a much better implementation.

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