From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: master 792ba71: Add a new function 'buffer-line-statistics' Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2021 20:37:25 +0200 Message-ID: <83mtxec87u.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20210112174748.18372.29339@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20210112174750.5928220B2C@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="19649"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 12 19:40:34 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kzOan-00051A-Ul for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 12 Jan 2021 19:40:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33634 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kzOam-000635-To for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 12 Jan 2021 13:40:32 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:55742) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kzOXa-00035k-Nt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Jan 2021 13:37:14 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:37574) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kzOXZ-0007kQ-WF; Tue, 12 Jan 2021 13:37:14 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:3378 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kzOXZ-0003wX-Dn; Tue, 12 Jan 2021 13:37:13 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Tue, 12 Jan 2021 13:15:25 -0500) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:263018 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2021 13:15:25 -0500 > Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen > > I thought computing the mean was necessarily O(N) in space (like > keeping the full sequence of line lengths so you can sort it and then > pick the middle point). That the median, not the mean. "Mean" and "average" are identical.