/i4o

Indexes for Objects

Primary LanguageC#GNU General Public License v3.0GPL-3.0

This project is not being supported anymore. Please take a look at https://github.com/dotnetprojects/IndexedLinq that was forked from this project and is now available as a nuget package.

IP.i4o - Index for objects

IP.i4o (index for objects) enhances the i4o library (https://github.com/ericksoa/i4o) from which it was forked. This library was renamed as well in order to prevent confusion if, for example, both this and the original were to appear on NuGet.

Project

Key Features

  • Allows indexes to be added to collections to optimize LINQ queries since, by default, LINQ queries collection items sequentially. Specifically, this is achieved by adding either a comparison or an equality index, which have O(log n) or O(1) operation, respectively.
Standard (unoptimized) LINQ queries: **O(n)**
LINQ queries with comparison index: **O(log n)**
LINQ queries with equality index: **O(1)**

Enhancements/changes to i4o

  • Optimized inefficient index queries whereby the binary search was performed twice: first to check if the key existed and again to look up the key/value
  • Removed c5 collections dependency/source code (it was used by i40 primarily for its red-black tree implementation and helper methods for selecting ranges) in favor of the .NET built-in generic SortedList<TKey,TValue> (the range selection functionality was implemented via SortedList<TKey,TValue> extension methods).
  • Removed Silverlight projects -- this is mainly because I'm not developing anything for Silverlight at the moment and do not want to spend time maintaining it.

Documentation

Milestones/issues

How to get it

  • A beta should soon be available on NuGet.
  • Download/fork the source and build.

License

GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), Version 3.0, 29 June 2007