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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
Subject: Re: list strawman
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 21:26:07 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2002-01-08T21:26:07+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a1fo5f$o10$1@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7iE_7.8661$cD4.15714@www.newsranger.com

Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com> wrote:
: In article <mailman.1010451062.16465.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>, Steven Deller
: says...
:>That seems to me to be a fundamental flaw in the interface.  Yes, I know
:>sorting is predefined in the interface, but as there is only ONE sort
:>predefined, I'd think users might want to implement their own sort.
: 
: The sort used will probably be Quicksort too (yes, I know that's not your
: point). 

Another suggestion: Saving the current length of the list will allow
a quick inspection to choose an algorithm, so Insertion Sort could be
used for short lists, which can be made stable and is faster for doubly
linked lists than for arrays. 
Also, it does not have the n**2 problem for pre-sorted lists.


Georg



  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-01-08 21:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-01-06 20:55 list strawman Stephen Leake
2002-01-07 15:56 ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-07 15:57   ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-07 16:33   ` Stephen Leake
2002-01-07 16:37     ` Stephen Leake
2002-01-07 19:31       ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-07 19:26     ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-07 22:05       ` Stephen Leake
2002-01-07 22:51         ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-08  0:48           ` Steven Deller
2002-01-08 15:32             ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-08 15:43               ` Jean-Marc Bourguet
2002-01-08 17:07                 ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-08 17:21                   ` Jean-Marc Bourguet
2002-01-08 19:12                     ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-09  8:09                       ` Jean-Marc Bourguet
2002-01-09 18:37                         ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-11  9:37                           ` Jean-Marc Bourguet
2002-01-11 17:03                             ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-11 17:47                               ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-01-12 15:10                               ` Jean-Marc Bourguet
2002-01-13 10:18                                 ` Jean-Marc Bourguet
2002-01-14 16:02                                 ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-14 16:22                                   ` Jean-Marc Bourguet
2002-01-08 19:57                     ` Steven Deller
2002-01-08 19:54                 ` Steven Deller
2002-01-08 19:54               ` Steven Deller
2002-01-08 20:46                 ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-08 21:21                   ` Stephen Leake
2002-01-08 21:49                     ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-09  9:21                       ` Thomas Wolf
2002-01-09 15:20                         ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-09 15:53                           ` Stephen Leake
2002-01-09 21:21                             ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-09 17:42                         ` Mark Lundquist
2002-01-09 21:02                           ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-01-10  8:47                             ` Thomas Wolf
2002-01-11 17:38                               ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-01-11 21:52                                 ` Chad Robert Meiners
2002-01-12  5:45                                   ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-01-12 22:20                                     ` Chad R. Meiners
2002-01-13 17:03                                       ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-01-13 23:47                                         ` Chad R. Meiners
2002-01-14  1:32                                           ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-14  5:12                                           ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-01-14  5:12                                           ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-01-10 14:39                           ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-11  5:34                             ` Mark Biggar
2002-01-12 12:20                               ` Simon Wright
2002-01-14 14:53                                 ` Matthew Heaney
2002-01-16  5:56                                   ` Simon Wright
2002-01-18  9:15                           ` Overridability of _private_ predefined "=" [was Re: list strawman] Vincent Marciante
2002-01-19 16:58                             ` Vincent Marciante
2002-01-19 22:42                               ` Nick Roberts
2002-01-09  3:10                     ` list strawman Ted Dennison
2002-01-09 19:09                       ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-08 21:26               ` Georg Bauhaus [this message]
2002-01-08 22:13                 ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-09 20:52               ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-02-17 15:04 ` Florian Weimer
2002-02-17 15:05 ` Florian Weimer
2002-02-18  1:43   ` Stephen Leake
2002-02-18  8:57     ` Florian Weimer
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