On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 12:25 AM, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote:
>
> Fair enough.  In fact, given that reading the file from disk is O(n) and
> sorting it is O(n log n), at some point, the sort will totally swamp the
> input time.

But given the much larger fixed cost of disk access, that might take
an awful lot of strings...

ChrisA
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