Aubrey Jaffer skrev:
> | Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 13:52:04 +0100
> | From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jens_Axel_S=F8gaard?= <xxxxxx@soegaard.net>
> |
> | The specification of sort! reads:
> |
> | Function: sort! sequence less?
> | Function: sort! sequence less? key
> |
> | Returns list, array, vector, or string sequence which has
> | been mutated to order its elements according to less?. Given
> | valid arguments, it is always the case that:
> |
> | (sorted? (sort! sequence less?) less?) => #t
> |
> | Would be possible to add that the sorting is in-place?
>
> Just before the specification of SORTED? is:
>
> The `!' variants sort in place; sort! returns its sequence argument.
I missed that.
> | Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 16:06:59 -0800
> | From: Per Bothner <xxxxxx@bothner.com>
> |
> | Aubrey Jaffer wrote:
> | > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorting_algorithm has a table of
> | > properties for sort algorithms. "In-place merge sort" is shown as
> | > stable, O(n log(n)) time, and using no additional memory.
I meant "using no additional memory", when I wrote "in-place".
> | "In-place merge sort" works well for lists. Is there an in-place
> | version for vectors?
> I think
>
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/rd/0%2C472101%2C1%2C0.25%2CDownload/http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/cache/papers/cs/24817/http:zSzzSzstaff.cs.utu.fizSzstaffzSztomi.pasanenzSzPS_of_pubszSzmergesort_NJC.pdf/katajainen96practical.pdf
> gives one.
> I am saturated with work now. Anyone up for coding it?
Can't this be used?
<http://svn.plt-scheme.org/plt/trunk/collects/srfi/32/vmsort.scm>
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Jens Axel Søgaard