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| From | Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> |
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| Subject | Re: Verifying a list is alphabetized |
| Date | Sun, 04 Dec 2011 08:47:42 -0500 |
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On 12/3/2011 11:05 PM, Roedy Green wrote:
> On Sat, 03 Dec 2011 07:44:48 -0500, Eric Sosman
> <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted
> someone who said :
>
>> What is the big-Oh complexity of Collections.sort(List<String>)
>> on an already-sorted list?
>
> IIRC QuickSort goes a bit bananas if the file is already sorted. [...]
Since Collections.sort() does not use Quicksort (in fact, it
promises *not* to use Quicksort!), observations on Quicksort's
behavior, however interesting, do not bear on the issue at hand.
--
Eric Sosman
esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid
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Verifying a list is alphabetized laredotornado <laredotornado@zipmail.com> - 2011-11-30 07:52 -0800
Re: Verifying a list is alphabetized Knute Johnson <nospam@knutejohnson.com> - 2011-11-30 08:05 -0800
Re: Verifying a list is alphabetized Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-11-30 11:18 -0800
Re: Verifying a list is alphabetized Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-12-02 19:54 -0500
Re: Verifying a list is alphabetized Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-12-03 07:44 -0500
Re: Verifying a list is alphabetized Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-12-03 09:02 -0500
Re: Verifying a list is alphabetized Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-12-03 20:05 -0800
Re: Verifying a list is alphabetized Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-12-03 22:13 -0800
Re: Verifying a list is alphabetized Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2011-12-04 21:47 +0000
Re: Verifying a list is alphabetized Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2011-12-04 12:42 +0000
Re: Verifying a list is alphabetized Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-12-04 12:18 -0800
Re: Verifying a list is alphabetized Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2011-12-04 13:17 -0800
Re: Verifying a list is alphabetized Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-12-04 15:32 -0800
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Re: Verifying a list is alphabetized Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-12-04 16:14 -0800
Re: Verifying a list is alphabetized markspace <-@.> - 2011-12-04 17:12 -0800
Re: Verifying a list is alphabetized Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-12-04 21:17 -0500
Re: Verifying a list is alphabetized Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2011-12-04 22:11 +0000
Re: Verifying a list is alphabetized Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2011-12-04 23:41 +0000
Re: Verifying a list is alphabetized Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-12-12 01:39 -0800
Re: Verifying a list is alphabetized Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-12-04 08:47 -0500
Re: Verifying a list is alphabetized Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2011-12-04 21:34 -0800
Re: Verifying a list is alphabetized Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-11-30 12:52 -0800
Re: Verifying a list is alphabetized laredotornado <laredotornado@zipmail.com> - 2011-12-01 06:43 -0800
Re: Verifying a list is alphabetized Joshua Maurice <joshuamaurice@gmail.com> - 2011-11-30 13:16 -0800
Re: Verifying a list is alphabetized Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-12-02 01:43 -0800
Re: Verifying a list is alphabetized Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-12-02 05:58 -0800
Re: Verifying a list is alphabetized Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-12-02 19:55 -0500
Re: Verifying a list is alphabetized Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-12-03 02:54 -0800
Re: Verifying a list is alphabetized Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-12-03 06:17 -0800
Re: Verifying a list is alphabetized Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-12-03 03:10 -0800
Re: Verifying a list is alphabetized Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-12-02 19:52 -0500
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