Re: list strawman

["Chad R. Meiners" <crmeiners@hotmail.com>]

"Jeffrey Carter" <jrcarter@acm.org> wrote in message
news:3C41BDF6.6E797663@acm.org...
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> Perhaps I'm missing something, but how can you radix sort
>
> type Element is range System.Min_Int .. System.Max_Int;
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> into ascending order? I guess I would need to see an actual
> implementation of a generic radix sort and how a client would invoke it
> for my limited brain to understand what you're getting at.

Well I don't currently have time to whip up an implementation right now, but
the general method would be to choose the base that you want to sort by
(like base 2 , base 256 or base 2**10 and so on)  then you map the type to
an unsigned integer and take ceiling(log_base (Element'Lenght)) passes to
sort the list.  For the buckets you simply create an array of lists and when
we finish each pass you simply append the array of lists together to prepare
for the next pass.   When I have time, I'll look into implementing the sort
if you would like to see it.

-CRM