On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 01:20:50 +0900 Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
| If backtracking was all there was to it, it could be done very
| quickly of course. However, it's essentially a brute force method;
| I'm not very good with O notation but I think it's O(n^n). I've got
| an algorithm in my head that'll do it but it goes into an infinite
| loop in the cases that Carsten mentioned. That's why things are
| taking so long. I should really write it down...

It's worse than O(n^n) if you try to do USE dep conflict resolution
too...

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