Associative Arrays max length? 32bit/64bit

[bearophile via Digitalmars-d]

FG:

> and each bucket points to an ordered double-linked list.
> That list is walked left or right depending on what value
> Typeinfo::compare returns for two keys. Hmm... isn't opCmp
> used by that function? Why useless?

Sorry, I didn't know the linked list is sorted. It's scanned 
sequentially, because you can't use a binary search on a regular 
linked list. Perhaps a skiplist is better to avoid O(n^2) 
behavour in presence of attacks or degenerate cases (in past the 
AA used a tree there).

Bye,
bearophile