[Swift-devel] Associative array in Swift [GSoC]

[Mihael Hategan]

On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 12:27 +0200, Ben Clifford wrote:
> > 
> > I think the typical example (if I remember correctly) used in the
> > map/reduce paper is a reasonable case: count the number of occurrences
> > of each word in a set of files.
> > 
> > In a sense, this can be easy if we don't insist that this be implemented
> > in the exact same way as with m/r.
> 
> The "can be done but not like mapreduce" is something that hangs
> around the edge of the map-reduce-in-swift idea the whole time. Is
> there a reason to want to do it other than fascination-with-google?
> 

I'm inclined to side with your view.

But I can't stop thinking that the real question is whether swift is
able to meaningfully tie together some two particular applications which
happen to behave like implementations of map and reduce as used by the
google framework.