From: Brian Hurt <bhurt@spnz.org>
To: Seth Fogarty <sfogarty@gmail.com>
Cc: caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: Set and Map question
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 23:02:44 -0500 (CDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0409192258210.5809-100000@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c7ee6112040919201417b7328@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, 19 Sep 2004, Seth Fogarty wrote:
> Beh, sorry, I was very confused and asked the wrong questions. The
> answer to the below is yes, as specified in the manual, and I knew
> that. Too many things juggling at once.
>
> What I MEANT to ask is: Is there a O(n) method of set/map construction
> from a list, as opposed to the O(n log n) fold method.
Implemented? No. Possible? Yes, if the list is sorted.
The code is actually fairly easy. Take the length of the list. Subtract
one for the root node. The first (n-1)/2 elements are in the left hand
subtree, the last n-1-((n-1)/2) elements are in the right subtree.
If the list isn't sorted, then no. Any algorithm for turning the list
into a sorted tree in less than O(N log N) would also serve for sorting
the list in less than O(N log N), and would be a major advance in computer
science. I don't think it's possible, however.
--
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Brian
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-20 3:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-20 2:37 [Caml-list] " Seth Fogarty
2004-09-20 3:14 ` [Caml-list] " Seth Fogarty
2004-09-20 3:56 ` skaller
2004-09-20 4:18 ` Seth Fogarty
2004-09-20 6:43 ` skaller
2004-09-20 8:32 ` Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons
2004-09-20 4:02 ` Brian Hurt [this message]
2004-09-20 8:17 ` Richard Jones
2004-09-20 12:41 ` Igor Pechtchanski
2004-09-20 12:54 ` Jean-Christophe Filliatre
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