From: Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@...>
Date: 2003-02-21T00:51:42+09:00
Subject: Re: optimization question

On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 03:57:03PM +0900, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
> Hello Daniel,
> 
> Thursday, February 20, 2003, 9:13:16 AM, you wrote:
> DC> I think that sorting is about as expensive as hashing.
> DC> Here is a quick benchmark for 5,000 iterations:
> 
> i think that really expensive is interpreting the code.
> if you think about C code, you can try to squeeze second
> block in my program into Array#uniqc method. imvho,
> it is the simplest way to speed up your program - just
> because other variants will require much more efforts
> to code

Yeah.  I'll think about writing an Array#uniqc method this afternoon.  It 
might turn out to be easier than the one I wrote yesterday.

-- 
Daniel Carrera
Graduate Teaching Assistant.  Math Dept.
University of Maryland.  (301) 405-5137