Re: Sorting a list of records
Re: Sorting a list of records
- Subject: Re: Sorting a list of records
- From: Gil Dawson <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2010 19:37:57 -0700
Wow!
Thanks you all for your suggestions!
I've learned a lot about sorting in the last couple of weeks, and my project is coming along nicely.
What a great group to work with!
--Gil
On Aug 23, 2010, at 3:58 PM, Gil Dawson wrote:
> I need an algorithm to sort a list of records in a "stable" way. By "stable", I mean
On Aug 23, 2010, at 5:10 PM, Mark J. Reed wrote:
> You could pick an efficient, stable algorithm from the table at
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorting_algorithm#Comparison_of_algorithms
On Aug 23, 2010, at 5:33 PM, Stockly, Ed wrote:
> Give this one a try.
On Aug 24, 2010, at 2:20 AM, Nigel Garvey wrote:
> Merge Sort is a stable. I have in fact recently posted a customisable
> Merge Sort on the same forum as above:
>
> <http://macscripter.net/viewtopic.php?pid=131165#p131165>
On Aug 24, 2010, at 9:49 PM, email@hidden wrote:
> The merge sort seems more complicated and a lot slower. Am I missing something?
On Aug 25, 2010, at 12:44 AM, Axel Luttgens wrote:
> Have you tried with longer lists?
>
> That said, it seems that the execution speed of your SortAList() handler may be greatly enhanced by prefixing each occurrence of a property with "my" (as in: my sortedList, my calcList, my listToSort...).
> Yeah, that old trick again. ;-)
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