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From: "boyd, rounin" <boyd@insultant.net>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] UTF-8 criticism?
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 20:39:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <000701c46cf6$814c4370$92ec7d50@SOMA> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6e35c06204071810312daa31a9@mail.gmail.com>

> If you were to sort a UTF-8 string for some reason, the bubble
> sort would actually have a lower order of magnitude than the
> quicksort.

that's not the real problem.  it's implementing the collation
sequences.  the internal representation as 16 bit unsigneds
is not a problem.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-07-18 18:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-18 17:31 Jack Johnson
2004-07-18 18:27 ` Rob Pike
2004-07-18 18:39 ` boyd, rounin [this message]
2004-07-18 19:05   ` Rob Pike
2004-07-18 19:06     ` boyd, rounin
2004-07-19  9:00       ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2004-07-19 15:34         ` Skip Tavakkolian
2004-07-18 19:34     ` boyd, rounin
2004-07-19  7:40       ` Charles Forsyth
2004-07-19  8:39         ` Geoff Collyer
2004-07-19 21:01     ` Joel Salomon
2004-07-19 21:22       ` boyd, rounin
2004-07-19 21:35         ` Joel Salomon
2004-07-19 21:56           ` Joel Salomon
2004-07-19 21:42       ` andrey mirtchovski
2004-07-19 21:43         ` Tengwar " Joel Salomon
2004-07-20  8:32       ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2004-07-19 21:35 ` rog

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