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Re: Difference between two arrays

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On 2014-05-27, John C <rescattered@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> If your code is doing this often and the arrays have more than just a few 
> elements then you might run into performance issues. I think that .indexOf
> just implements a linear search hence the code you show is O(mn) where m, n are 
> the lengths of the arrays (so roughly 1,000,000 comparisons if m = n = 1000). 
> It might be better to first sort the arrays and then replace .indexOf with a
> binary search function (giving you something like O((m+n)(log(m) + log(n))). 
> For things like m = n = 1000 this would be an order of magnitude quicker. On 
> the other hand, for small m and n the time spent sorting might be hard to 
> justify.

A sort (say alphanumeric) and then a binary search might be quicker.

In perl I have often seen scripts which simply set an unordered list
to be searched as the keys of a hash (associative array) and then check
if the key exists since, in creating a hash, perl is rather efficient
in creating a structure (heap?) enabling efficient searching.

There are so many interpreters/JIT engines for Javascript that I don't
know if creating an associative array with keys being the elements of
an array (then checking for assoc_array[key])) would drastically
improve the search process.

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Difference between two arrays Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2014-05-27 11:55 +1000
  Re: Difference between two arrays Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-05-27 05:58 +0000
  Re: Difference between two arrays John C <rescattered@gmail.com> - 2014-05-27 03:34 -0700
    Re: Difference between two arrays Spamless <Spamless@Nil.nil> - 2014-05-31 06:35 -0500
      Re: Difference between two arrays Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-05-31 14:57 +0200
        Re: Difference between two arrays Spamless <Spamless@Nil.nil> - 2014-06-01 03:43 -0500
          Re: Difference between two arrays Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-06-01 14:01 +0200
            Re: Difference between two arrays Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-06-01 16:53 +0200
  Re: Difference between two arrays Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-05-27 13:41 +0100
    Re: Difference between two arrays Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-05-27 17:41 +0200
    Re: Difference between two arrays Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-05-27 17:49 +0200
      Re: Difference between two arrays Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-05-27 17:34 +0100
        Re: Difference between two arrays Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-05-27 19:33 +0200
          Re: Difference between two arrays Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-05-27 20:03 +0100
    Re: Difference between two arrays Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-05-27 17:16 +0100
      Re: Difference between two arrays Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-05-27 19:29 +0200
  Re: Difference between two arrays Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-05-27 17:21 +0200
  Re: Difference between two arrays Dr J R Stockton <reply1400@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2014-05-28 18:22 +0100
    Re: Difference between two arrays Dr J R Stockton <reply1400@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2014-05-30 22:23 +0100
    Re: Difference between two arrays "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2014-05-31 14:59 -0700
      Re: Difference between two arrays "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2014-06-01 00:50 +0200
        Re: Difference between two arrays "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2014-05-31 16:17 -0700
          Re: Difference between two arrays "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2014-06-01 10:49 +0200
            Re: Difference between two arrays "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2014-06-01 13:37 -0700
      Re: Difference between two arrays Dr J R Stockton <reply1400@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2014-06-01 18:56 +0100

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