Please ignore the previous message, I already posted that idea;-)

Cheers,

Tomas

Tomas Hlavaty <[email protected]> writes:

> Hi Alex,
>
>> A typical example would be sorting a list of customers by city, name and
>> customer number, in that order. A binary comparison for 'sort2' would
>> look like
>>
>>    (sort2
>>       (collect ... '+CuSu ...)
>>       '((CuSu1 CuSu2)
>>          (cond
>>             ((<> (; CuSu1 ort) (; CuSu2 ort))
>>                (> (; CuSu2 ort) (; CuSu1 ort)) )
>>             ((<> (; CuSu1 nm) (; CuSu2 nm))
>>                (> (; CuSu2 nm) (; CuSu1 nm)) )
>>             (T
>>                (> (; CuSu2 nr) (; CuSu1 nr)) ) ) ) )
>>
>> This binary function is rather complicated (and thus slow), and it might
>> be called nearly O(N^2) times.
>
> it should be called O(N*log(N)) times if the built-in 'sort' function
> implements a decent sorting algorithm (which I guess it does;-).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tomas
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