Data Structure to modify

[Jeffrey Rosen]

Here are two things that I can think of that might be interesting and
pretty manageable.

- Convert the list of accounts in account.c from a linked list to a hashtable.
- Convert the list of conversations in conversation.c from a linked
list into a hashtable.

-Jeff

On 10/15/07, Luke Schierer <lschiere at pidgin.im> wrote:
> I am moving this to devel, where I think it is more relevent.
>
> On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 02:15:42PM -0700, M Ellerhorst wrote:
> >
> > I'm a student and I have to pick a project to test different data structures
> > in an open source project and present our findings to my "Data Structures"
> > class.  I picked Pidgin because it is an awesome project and I have used it
> > for a little while now, but digging into the code has left me a bit
> > overwhelmed.  As developers, I was wondering if you knew of a more isolated
> > data structure that I could change and observe a tangible difference in
> > operation without having to change a substantial amount of code?  Thanks for
> > your help.
> > --
>
> I'm not sure we are a great choice for this, as we have few data
> structures that lend themselves to tampering.  The only ones that come
> to my mind are the buddy list and lists of conversations, neither of
> which would be easy to modify wihtout ill effects.
>
> luke
>
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