http://antonolsen.com/2005/04/10/coming-soon/ Making Mistakes as Fast as I Can. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:53:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://antonolsen.com/2005/04/10/coming-soon/comment-page-1/#comment-548 rattus Sat, 03 Mar 2007 23:24:38 +0000 http://antonolsen.com/?p=30#comment-548 Great idea for the shuffle! The "sort" might or should be "sort -n", at least for consistency. BTW, I compared your shuffle() with a simple perl script using mainly "splice(@array, rand @array, 1)". The perl shuffles 40k lines in 0.5 seconds whereas your shuffle() takes 8.2 seconds on a 2.4 GHz Xeon. Of course, the difference is of less importance when the number of lines is lower. Great idea for the shuffle! The “sort” might or should be “sort -n”, at least for consistency. BTW, I compared your shuffle() with a simple perl script using mainly “splice(@array, rand @array, 1)”. The perl shuffles 40k lines in 0.5 seconds whereas your shuffle() takes 8.2 seconds on a 2.4 GHz Xeon. Of course, the difference is of less importance when the number of lines is lower.

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