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-- card: 10271 from stack: in.0
-- bmap block id: 0
-- flags: 0000
-- background id: 3797
-- name:
-- part contents for background part 1
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Date: Sun, 6 Dec 87 23:23:19 est
From: hodas@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Josh Hodas)
Fellow Hyperhackers:
I am in need of a fast method for sorting a field line by line.
I have implemented standard selection sort but its a dog (495 seconds for
175 lines on a Mac II) and have attempted quicksort but it dies with
"too much recursion" or "too many variables" if the field has more than
about 15 lines. I may try shellsort tomorrow; but even if it works,
it is likely to be slow if written in hypertalk.
What I really need is a simple xfcn that sorts a given text field.
It should be really simple to implement, I simply haven't got the tools
as yet (still picking a compiler).
Has anyone out there written or seen such a function? Any
help would be greatly apreciated.
Thanks,
Josh Hodas
Hodas@eniac.seas.upenn.edu
PS: It seems rather horrible that hypertalk should die on such shallow
recursion. any clues?
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sorting fields