Re: Schwartzian Transform

[Tad McClellan]

On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 05:44:43PM -0500, John Porter wrote:
> Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> > It's all about reduction to primitive-comparable and the
> > relative cost of it.
> 
> You're right.  Extraction of fields is only one example.
> 
> (But it's illustrative, no?)


I like to use sorting filenames based on the file's size as an example.

Nothing like throwing some disk accesses into it if slow is what
you seek.


-- 
    Tad McClellan                          SGML consulting
    [EMAIL PROTECTED]                   Perl programming
    Fort Worth, Texas