From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [OFF TOPIC] Algorithms (was: Re: Too fine design granularity leads to numerous macro/function/command existed in Emacs.) Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2021 15:26:12 +0200 Message-ID: <878s15zdaj.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <87czqh3b8u.fsf@zoho.eu> <87pmuhze52.fsf@zoho.eu> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="18707"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:sG/AwuqLSVAxfzz8ZgPtA81An5w= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 13 15:27:13 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1mEXDM-0004bE-PO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2021 15:27:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49846 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mEXDL-0004UK-M6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2021 09:27:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:49302) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mEXCc-0004QT-Ui for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2021 09:26:26 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:44228) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mEXCa-0005A7-Sq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2021 09:26:26 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mEXCY-0003ao-FT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Aug 2021 15:26:22 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:132501 Archived-At: Yuri Khan wrote: > The advice is sound. Asymptotically, sorting in order to > extract one longest (maximum, best) element is like firing > a cannon at sparrows: sorting requires O(N*log(N)) > comparisons but a single maximum value can be found in just > O(N). -1 -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal