Re: how to sort a list
Re: how to sort a list
- Subject: Re: how to sort a list
- From: BJ Terry <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 12:10:01 -0700
On May 14, 2004, at 3:27 AM, Emmanuel wrote:
At 9:09 PM -0400 13/05/04, Graff wrote:
If you have really large lists (on the order of thousands of items)
then you might want to do a shell or quick sort. I have those
implemented in AppleScript so let me know if you need them. Honestly
though, if you are sorting more than a few thousand items with
AppleScript then you might want to look at going to another language
such as C or Java or the like.
A bit confusing for me: what you call the "shell sort" is written in
C, isn't it? What good would there be to write [yet] another "sort" in
C?
Emmanuel
By Shell Sort he isn't referring to /usr/bin/sort, he's referring to to
the "Shell Sort" algorithm. More information on that can be found at
http://linux.wku.edu/~lamonml/algor/sort/shell.html It can certainly be
implemented separately in AppleScript.
BJ
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