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From: Wes Groleau <wesgroleau@despammed.com>
Subject: Re: Smart sorting algorithm ?
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 09:40:27 -0500
Date: 2002-07-11T09:40:27-05:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D2D98DB.39944A80@despammed.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ioGW8.83356$xy.28494668@twister.socal.rr.com



> I mentioned earlier that you should investigate non-comparison-based
> sorting.  If you can easily create a lookup table, then you should easily be
> able to create such a sorting algorithm.  O(n) and O(1) comparison sorting
> is possible under special circumstances...

The lookup table is created by doing the comparisons.
And predicting some comparisons from others.
Once that's done, the row with the N "this is first"
entries is first.  Second is the row with N-1, etc.
But the whole process still involves some comparisons.

-- 
Wes Groleau
http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau



  reply	other threads:[~2002-07-11 14:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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
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 [this message]
2002-07-11 20:04       ` Robert Dewar
2002-07-15 19:37         ` Wes Groleau
2002-07-15 22:08           ` achrist
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