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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: remove-duplicates performances
Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 11:09:55 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvr57tv52f.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877h9lv5tl.fsf@gmail.com> (Thierry Volpiatto's message of "Fri,  20 May 2011 15:51:02 +0200")

> i just noticed that `remove-duplicates' is very slow.

It's using an O(N²) algorithm, so it's indeed slow for long lists.

> (setq A (let ((seq (loop for i from 1 to 10000 collect i)))
>           (append seq seq)))
> (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 2 ...)

For such long lists, I fully expect it to be slow.
But for short lists, the overhead of constructing a hash-table should
make the current code competitive.  Can you try and find out for which
lengths your code is better than the one we have?


        Stefan



  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-20 14:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-20 13:51 remove-duplicates performances Thierry Volpiatto
2011-05-20 14:09 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2011-05-20 14:39   ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-05-20 16:14     ` Stefan Monnier
2011-05-20 17:46       ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-05-20 15:16   ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-05-20 14:28 ` David Kastrup
2011-05-20 16:00   ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-05-20 17:01     ` David Kastrup
2011-05-20 17:31       ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-05-20 17:46         ` David Kastrup
2011-05-20 18:01           ` Stefan Monnier
2011-05-20 21:57             ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2011-05-20 17:57       ` Ted Zlatanov

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