In our previous episode, Thaddy said: > > would be evaluated every time. S > > the O(N^2) stems from the fact that it is hard to get the ith > > character in a a UTF8String in O(1). Suppose it is o(N), then the loop > > is O(n^2). > > > "Hard to" is implementation detail and not part of any algorithm. A > translation table goes a long way in implementing your example efficiently.
What kind of translation table ? Do you have an example? What is the key and what is the value? _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel