2009/12/21 Greg Stark <[email protected]>:
> Incidentally there are O(n) algorithms for finding the median (or any
> specific offset). It shouldn't be necessary to sort at all.

it is interesting information. It could to help with missing
optimalisations now.

Pavel

>
> I'm not sure which path this argues for - perhaps Tom's position that
> we need more optimiser infrastructure so we can see how to accomplish
> this. Perhaps it means you should really implement median() with an
> internal selection alagorithm and not depend on the optimizer at all.
>
>
> --
> greg
>

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