Am Dienstag 23 Februar 2010 13:59:49 schrieb Ertugrul Soeylemez: > Jonas Almström Duregård <jonas.dureg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Ertugrul: while your solution is minimalistic, Rafael deemed his > > ~n*log n implementation too inefficient. Thus your ~n^3 implementation > > is hardly an improvement...
Not quite as bad, nub is O(n^2). > > My variant has an advantage, though. It is completely lazy, so it will > take a shortcut, as soon as a duplicate is found. Depending on his > application, this may be useful or not. > > I think the nub-based solution is the best one in general, but it's the > base library implementation of nub, which is unfortunate. In fact, with > a better nub implementation, this becomes an O(n * log n) time How can you nub in O(n*log n)? Remember, you only have Eq for nub. > algorithm, too, but with the additional laziness advantage. The article > you linked to contains such an implementation, I think. > > > Greets > Ertugrul _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe