--- Den lør 1/5/10 skrev Henry Rich <[email protected]>:
> Since his polygons are convex, surely a more efficient
> solution would be to use the log n method.

For polygons with few vertices the containment problem is fast anyways. If n is 
small a O(log n) method need not be faster than a O(n) method. Polygons with 
many vertices are not likely to be convex. 

Response times of milliseconds are acceptable, and even a tenfold speedup is 
commercially unimportant. Responce times of years are unacceptable, and even a 
tenfold speedup doesn't help it. Chasing percentages is uninteresting except 
for the fun of it. So a simple and general program that is performing 
acceptably fast is satisfactory. 
- Bo




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