Reserving/Preallocating associative array?

[Benjamin Thaut]

Also, gordon whats is keeping you from converting the textual 
representation to a binary one? I mean, if you need to read that file in 
often, you can easly preprocess it into a binary blob. You could even 
modify my hashmap implementation to support binary serialization, by 
just writing the entire array to a binary file and loading it again.
That would be fast...

Kind Regards
Benjamin Thaut