I didn’t mean to imply that it was; I was referring to countless developers I’ve worked with over the years who thought hash maps were the fastest
memory storage structure because they are generally O(1); they’ve mostly been ignorant of the fact that it’s only true for sufficiently small values of “1”.
It’s not O(1) though. There is still a normal sorting algorithm sorting this list, it’s just inside the OS scheduler.
I didn’t mean to imply that it was; I was referring to countless developers I’ve worked with over the years who thought hash maps were the fastest memory storage structure because they are generally
O(1); they’ve mostly been ignorant of the fact that it’s only true for sufficiently small values of “1”.