> I wonder whether a dedicated [text append] could help here, that lacks
> the functionality of [text set], but would be fast.
that would be a leaky abstraction. I think the [text set] / [text get] methods
can be improved to get O(N) complexity. I think we only need to cache the line
positions.
While still not understanding the purpose of [array quantile], I was
able to achieve this:
> I have n samples and input q while 0 < q < 1. I would like to know
> the
> value x for which q*100 percent samples are smaller than x and (1-
> q)*100 percent bigger.
Since [text define] got a 'sort'ing