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From: Tobias Wollgam <tobias.wollgam@materna.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] 2.5.8 sort kernel tables
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 17:16:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020419151625.75F1167F6@penelope.materna.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0204190851490.8537-100000@waste.org>

> On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> > Since we're comparing sort algorithms, I am quite fond of Heapsort.
> > Simple, no recursion or stack, and worst case O(n log n).  It's not
> > especially fast, but the worst case behaviour is nice:

There exist a variation of heapsort called clever heapsort  (or 
bottom-up heapsort) that is a little bit faster for big arrays.

I don't know if it will be useful for the kernel. How big are the 
arrays?

Greetings,

	Tobias


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  reply	other threads:[~2002-04-19 15:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-18  9:46 Keith Owens
2002-04-18 10:21 ` Matthias Andree
2002-04-18 10:32   ` Keith Owens
2002-04-18 10:52   ` Alan Cox
2002-04-18 13:02 ` Paul Mackerras
2002-04-18 15:38   ` Keith Owens
2002-04-18 15:52     ` Russell King
2002-04-18 16:09       ` Keith Owens
2002-04-18 13:59 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-04-18 18:16   ` Kai Henningsen
2002-04-18 18:24     ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-04-19 11:46     ` David Weinehall
2002-04-18 20:20   ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-04-19  4:59     ` Matt
2002-04-19 13:45     ` Jamie Lokier
2002-04-19 13:46     ` Jamie Lokier
2002-04-19 14:25       ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-04-19 15:16         ` Tobias Wollgam [this message]
     [not found] <1589.1019123186@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found] ` <15550.50131.489249.256007@nanango.paulus.ozlabs.org.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2002-04-18 17:51   ` Andi Kleen
2002-04-18 23:17     ` Keith Owens
2002-04-19 11:38 Randal, Phil
2002-04-20  5:19 ` Keith Owens
2002-04-20  8:50   ` Alan Cox
2002-04-20  9:40     ` Keith Owens

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