is Associative Arrays good for integer type as key?

[Stewart Gordon]

%u wrote:
> such as
> 
> int[short] hashtable;
> 
> where KeyType = short, and ValueType = int?
> 
> will this work?

Have you tried it?  Does it work?

> and as optimized (memory-wise, and CPU-wise)?

Depends on how you're using it.

Stewart.

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