id summary reporter owner description type status milestone component version severity resolution keywords cc 3693 unordered_set::erase(iterator) complexity jzwinck@… Daniel James "Recently raised on the Developers mailing list is the issue that `unordered_set::erase(iterator)` has complexity O(bucket_count): http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2009/11/159116.php The same issue came up just three weeks ago on the GCC bug tracker: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=41975 It was also warned about in 2006: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2006/n2023.pdf Slightly related, a change to Boost.!MultiIndex (made by the author of n2023): [changeset:33914] Daniel James suggested in the Developers thread that I should file this ticket. My desired outcome is the ability to erase by iterator from an `unordered_set` or `unordered_map` in constant time. The name of the method is not important to me; I suggested `erase_fast` or `erase_void` just to get the ball rolling." Feature Requests closed Boost 1.42.0 unordered Boost 1.41.0 Problem fixed unordered_set unordered_map erase iterator complexity n2023