For Large Dictionaries Could One Use Separate Dictionaries Where Each Dictionary Covers an Interval of the Input Range?

[Graham Fawcett]

Casey Hawthorne wrote:
> For Large Dictionaries Could One Use Separate Dictionaries Where Each
> Dictionary Covers an Interval of the Input Range?

One Could, But Why? :-) You wouldn't see any performance improvements.
Looking up a key in a dictionary is done in constant-time, i.e. it
doesn't matter how large the dictionary is. 

Graham