From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thien-Thi Nguyen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: how to access a large datastructure efficiently? Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:01:29 +0100 Message-ID: <87pr3kw2pi.fsf@ambire.localdomain> References: <873a0gshb6.fsf@tux.homenetwork> <87y6i8r1j3.fsf@tux.homenetwork> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1267716987 13568 80.91.229.12 (4 Mar 2010 15:36:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 15:36:27 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 04 16:36:23 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NnD64-0002H3-Id for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:36:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51296 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NnD63-0001CR-Vg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:36:20 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NnCsr-00085D-Ir for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:22:41 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=36315 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NnCsq-00084O-K8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:22:41 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NnCsp-00006N-UF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:22:40 -0500 Original-Received: from host28-210-dynamic.24-79-r.retail.telecomitalia.it ([79.24.210.28]:58768 helo=ambire.localdomain) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NnCsp-00006C-Nu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:22:39 -0500 Original-Received: from ttn by ambire.localdomain with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1NnCYL-0004V0-N2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:01:29 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Christian Wittern's message of "Thu, 4 Mar 2010 08:15:47 +0000 (UTC)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.91 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:72363 Archived-At: () Christian Wittern () Thu, 4 Mar 2010 08:15:47 +0000 (UTC) some kind of binary search How do you binary search a singly-linked list? thi