ConstantAccessTimeDictionaryView: Dictionary representation with constant time access to values by keys

ConstantAccessTimeDictionaryView.swift

public struct ConstantAccessTimeDictionaryView<Key: Hashable, Value> {
    public typealias IndexType =
        Versioned<_ConstantAccessTimeDictionaryView<Key, Value>.IndexType>
    
    public init(dict: [Key : Value]) {
        view = Versioned(_ConstantAccessTimeDictionaryView(dict))
    }
    
    public func index(key: Key) -> IndexType? {
        return view.value.index(key).map { IndexType($0, version: self.view.version) }
    }
    
    public subscript(index: IndexType) -> Value {
        get {
            assert(index.version == view.version, "Key does't correspond to the view!")
            return view.value[index.value]
        }
    }
    
    private let view: Versioned<_ConstantAccessTimeDictionaryView<Key, Value>>
}

public struct _ConstantAccessTimeDictionaryView<Key: Hashable, Value> {
    public typealias IndexType = Int
    
    private init(_ dict: [Key : Value]) {
        let (indices, values) = unzip(map(enumerate(dict)) { (i, kv) in
            ((kv.0, i), kv.1)
        })
        self.indices = Dictionary.fromPairs(indices)
        self.values = values
    }
    
    private func index(key: Key) -> IndexType? {
        return indices[key]
    }
    
    private subscript(index: IndexType) -> Value {
        get {
            return values[index]
        }
    }
    
    private let indices: [Key : IndexType]
    private let values: [Value]
}

private extension Dictionary {
    static func fromPairs(pairs: [(Key, Value)]) -> Dictionary<Key, Value> {
        var dict = [Key : Value]()
        for (k, v) in pairs {
            dict[k] = v
        }
        return dict
    }
}

private func unzip<T, U>(array: Array<(T, U)>) -> ([T], [U]) {
    var ts = Array<T>()
    var us = Array<U>()
    for (t, u) in array {
        ts.append(t)
        us.append(u)
    }
    return (ts, us)
}

This structure uses Versioned<T> from this gist

Example usage:

var dict: [String : Any] = ["_first": true, "_last": false, "name": "Something"]
let v = ConstantAccessTimeDictionaryView(dict: dict)
if let key = v.index("name") {
    v[key]
}

Rationale:

Assume you have a dictionary with a set of heavily used keys. Accessing values by those keys may become pretty inefficient, so that's where this class shines - it restructures the dictionary in a way so every key may be converted into an array index and memorized. Accessing the dictionary with a key from another one (say, after mutation) renders in a nice assertion.