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authorMitch Curtis <mitch.curtis@qt.io>2020-06-22 10:04:04 +0200
committerMitch Curtis <mitch.curtis@qt.io>2020-07-31 16:54:23 +0200
commit13c90a0a752c6f67a4fb4078f190505b0c2c46d7 (patch)
treecbdb22ba536722e3c5440ffe08812b0b2167d08b /src/corelib/tools/qset.qdoc
parent46ec92dad0f71c8d5e3260a67321d82054ea607e (diff)
Document that keys() and values() run in linear time
keys() and values() can be slower for large containers. I ran into this recently when profiling, and was surprised that keys() had to build the list of keys (by appending in a loop). Pick-to: 5.15 5.12 Change-Id: I73215f5a917790236704ad7ef78cefc4a049cd89 Reviewed-by: MÃ¥rten Nordheim <marten.nordheim@qt.io> Reviewed-by: Edward Welbourne <edward.welbourne@qt.io> Reviewed-by: Lars Knoll <lars.knoll@qt.io>
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@@ -1093,6 +1093,10 @@
\include containers-range-constructor.qdocinc
+ This function creates a new list, in \l {linear time}. The time and memory
+ use that entails can be avoided by iterating from \l constBegin() to
+ \l constEnd().
+
\sa fromList(), QList::fromSet()
*/