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From: Thomas Fischbacher <tf@functionality.de>
To: skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Jacques Garrigue <garrigue@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp>,
	sds@gnu.org, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: compiling large file hogs RAM and takes a long time.
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 10:05:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46691BE3.1050607@functionality.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1181267500.15201.144.camel@rosella.wigram>

skaller wrote:

> You mention in the ticket there is a hard way out .. using
> binary trees; hard because it would require changes everywhere
> in the compiler. Is this actually enough? Seems to reduce
> 
> 	O(n * n * log n)
> 
> to 
> 
> 	O( n * log n * log n)
 >
> which is still pretty bad.. is that right?

What would be so bad about O(n log n log n)?
After all, in our relevant computing universe, there
always is an upper bound to log n which is quite
a small constant (like 25 or so).

-- 
best regards,
Thomas Fischbacher
tf@functionality.de


  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-06-08  9:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-06 16:30 Sam Steingold
2007-06-06 16:51 ` [Caml-list] " skaller
2007-06-06 17:05   ` Sam Steingold
2007-06-07 15:52 ` Sam Steingold
2007-06-08  1:02   ` [Caml-list] " Jacques Garrigue
2007-06-08  1:51     ` skaller
2007-06-08  2:26       ` Yaron Minsky
2007-06-08  9:05       ` Thomas Fischbacher [this message]
2007-06-08  9:35         ` skaller
2007-06-08  9:55           ` Thomas Fischbacher
2007-06-08 13:39       ` Sam Steingold
2007-06-08 12:30     ` [Caml-list] " Jacques Garrigue
2007-06-15 15:41       ` Sam Steingold
2007-06-15 18:56         ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2007-06-15 20:06           ` Sam Steingold
2007-07-09 20:22 ` large parametrized polymorphic variant type combinations take forever to compile Sam Steingold
2007-07-09 22:45   ` Sam Steingold
2007-07-09 23:37   ` [Caml-list] " Jacques Garrigue
2007-07-10  7:09     ` Christophe Raffalli
2007-07-10  7:31       ` Jacques Garrigue
2007-07-10 14:16     ` Sam Steingold
2007-07-10 16:49     ` Sam Steingold
     [not found]     ` <46938BDA.1090605@podval.org>
2007-07-11  0:10       ` [Caml-list] " Jacques Garrigue
2007-07-11  1:19         ` Jon Harrop
2007-07-11  2:23           ` Jacques GARRIGUE
2007-07-11 13:12         ` Sam Steingold
2007-07-11 19:17           ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2007-07-10  3:34   ` [Caml-list] " skaller
2007-07-10 13:27     ` Sam Steingold

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