>>>>> "John" == John W Krahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
John> But of course I knew that! :-) John> I should have said "but it doesn't beat the Guttman Rosler John> Transform for speed." Yes. The ST can sort any multilevel complex sort, and is "programmer efficient". When the GRT *can* be used, and the programmer is willing to invest time to compute the "transform to and from a single string" functions, the GRT *may* be faster. It's like assembly vs high-level programming. Sure, assembly will be faster, but in what way? Certainly not in maintenance or readability. print "Just another Perl hacker,"; -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
