-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Tony Godshall wrote: >> Well, I'm don't have much to say about about the other points but one >> certainly does not need to keep an array for something like this- with >> the classic pseudorandom shuffle algorithm you only need to keep a >> count of the ones visited. Shall I pull out my Knuth?
That... only applies if you actually keep a _queue_ around, of all the ports that you plan to try, and shuffle it. Surely that's more waste (65,535 shorts, versus 65,535 _bits_), not less? ...We're not shuffling, here, we're choosing. - -- Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer... http://micah.cowan.name/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHFn+z7M8hyUobTrERCD10AJ9YGkKdGx/fvvdmGs/kxImFNEABzwCeIfdc e0znB9IYTQVEjSwx9X3rWsY= =dmih -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
