Re: Efficient binary search using two-way comparisons

2015-11-30 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d

On 11/29/2015 04:13 PM, Enamex wrote:

On Saturday, 28 November 2015 at 20:04:11 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

While reading Okasaki's bool on persistent data structures, I found
(page 14) a reference to a nice idea applicable to binary search using
D's two-way "less than" comparisons.

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15385

Any takers?


Andrei


Looks really simple. I could try? Though I'll probably come asking here
about contribution procedures and stuff (especially that I can't, not
possibly, compile Phobos or anything close to it with tests and such).


Xinok got ahead, but don't let that deter you. I'll post here other 
similar simple yet interesting tasks, and I encourage others to do the 
same. -- Andrei


Re: Efficient binary search using two-way comparisons

2015-11-29 Thread ZombineDev via Digitalmars-d

On Sunday, 29 November 2015 at 21:13:37 UTC, Enamex wrote:
On Saturday, 28 November 2015 at 20:04:11 UTC, Andrei 
Alexandrescu wrote:
While reading Okasaki's bool on persistent data structures, I 
found (page 14) a reference to a nice idea applicable to 
binary search using D's two-way "less than" comparisons.


https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15385

Any takers?


Andrei


Looks really simple. I could try? Though I'll probably come 
asking here about contribution procedures and stuff (especially 
that I can't, not possibly, compile Phobos or anything close to 
it with tests and such).


If you're on Linux, OSX or FreeBSD this should help you get 
started:

http://wiki.dlang.org/Starting_as_a_Contributor

On Windows the part about `git` is the same, however I'm not sure 
about the additional tools like `make`. I would try getting them 
using `msys2`'s `pacman` package manager, though maybe the `make` 
distributed with DMC/DMD is specifically needed for DMD, phobos 
and druntime. This was written in more detail here:
http://wiki.dlang.org/Building_DMD, however I'm not sure if the 
information is up to date.


Anyway, here you can find a good overview of the procedures (i.e. 
making Pull Requests on github):

http://wiki.dlang.org/Category:Contribution_Guidelines.


Re: Efficient binary search using two-way comparisons

2015-11-29 Thread Enamex via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 28 November 2015 at 20:04:11 UTC, Andrei 
Alexandrescu wrote:
While reading Okasaki's bool on persistent data structures, I 
found (page 14) a reference to a nice idea applicable to binary 
search using D's two-way "less than" comparisons.


https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15385

Any takers?


Andrei


Looks really simple. I could try? Though I'll probably come 
asking here about contribution procedures and stuff (especially 
that I can't, not possibly, compile Phobos or anything close to 
it with tests and such).


Efficient binary search using two-way comparisons

2015-11-28 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
While reading Okasaki's bool on persistent data structures, I found 
(page 14) a reference to a nice idea applicable to binary search using 
D's two-way "less than" comparisons.


https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15385

Any takers?


Andrei