On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Ted Dunning <[email protected]> wrote:

> The simplest implementation is O(n log(k)) (inserts every element, then
> drops at most one element).
>
> Caching the k-th best element and only inserting new items has the same
> worst case behavior in ordered cases.
>

why on earth would the current situation at hand ever have a fully ordered
vector?

This is a search problem, and the simple search solution works almost
completely linearly.

  -jake

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