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seabee on June 30, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Universal Data Structure

There is another subtlety that values associated with integer keys are stored as an array. dicts and HashMaps don't do this.

adrusi on June 30, 2015 [–]

And not even all integer keys! Lua will efficiently handle sparse arrays using tables.

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