From: Wes Groleau <wesgroleau@despammed.com>
Subject: Re: Smart sorting algorithm ?
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2002 15:08:09 -0500
Date: 2002-07-02T15:08:09-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D220829.D79F111A@despammed.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87lm8u3qld.fsf@CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE
> > The reason I'm asking is that I have a situation
> > where deciding the order of two items is very slow.
>
> Try insertion sort with a binary search. Still O(n^2) operations in
> total, but only about log_2 n! comparisons.
Excellent idea! Thanks!
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Wes Groleau
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2002-07-02 16:32 Smart sorting algorithm ? Wes Groleau
2002-07-02 17:00 ` achrist
2002-07-02 20:00 ` Wes Groleau
2002-07-02 21:57 ` achrist
2002-07-02 22:22 ` Wes Groleau
2002-07-02 22:57 ` achrist
2002-07-03 14:25 ` Wes Groleau
2002-07-08 17:36 ` Ron
2002-07-02 20:48 ` Florian Weimer
2002-07-02 17:21 ` Wilhelm Spickermann
2002-07-02 20:01 ` Wes Groleau
2002-07-02 20:22 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2002-07-06 13:40 ` Robert Dewar
2002-07-02 18:57 ` Florian Weimer
2002-07-02 20:08 ` Wes Groleau [this message]
2002-07-08 21:54 ` Wes Groleau
2002-07-09 4:35 ` Robert Dewar
2002-07-09 7:51 ` tmoran
2002-07-09 14:48 ` Ron
2002-07-10 14:38 ` Wes Groleau
2002-07-10 18:08 ` tmoran
2002-07-10 22:14 ` Wes Groleau
2002-07-09 18:59 ` Ron
2002-07-11 14:40 ` Wes Groleau
2002-07-11 20:04 ` Robert Dewar
2002-07-15 19:37 ` Wes Groleau
2002-07-15 22:08 ` achrist
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