[PATCH 2/3] dynarray: Implement remove function

Adhemerval Zanella adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org
Wed Feb 7 17:16:00 GMT 2018



On 07/02/2018 12:48, Alexander Monakov wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Feb 2018, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
> 
>> This patch implements the remove item function for dynarray array.
>> It is a costly operation, since it requires a memory move operation
>> possible as large as the array size less one element.
> 
> If preserving order is not required, then removing an element is as
> cheap as moving only the last element to the position of the removed.
> 
> If order preservation, is, in fact, part of the intended interface,
> then shouldn't the new function be named like '..._ordered_remove'
> to reflect that?
> 
> Alexander
> 

I see dynarray works similar to c++ vector container and the remove
usage on subsequent patch expects order preservation.  So I would
prefer to use the other way around your suggestion: to add a
unordered_remove if the case.



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