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> a good strategy is to reserve the necessary memory in an array, fill it with keys/values, sort it once over the keys and coindex the value array

This explanation confuses me. Is there one or two arrays? What does "coindex" mean?




Equal indices refer to the same entity in all places. I.e. two arrays, one for the key, one for the value. The value of the key at index n in the key array is found at the same index n in the values array.




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