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From:
Jeremy Vinding
Date:
February 13, 2002 10:50
Subject:
RE: finding max value
Message ID:
GNEBJNPEEJMMLILBFEBHMEBODAAA.jvinding@aol.com
> >there must be a flaw in my test here:
> >
> >my @bob = rand for (1..20);
> >my @joe = rand for (1..10_000);
>
> Those.
>
>   my @bob = map rand, 1 .. 20;
>   my @joe = map rand, 1 .. 10_000;
>

duh... thx
of course, the results still favor sort:

Benchmark: timing 1000000 iterations of for 10_000 elems, for 20 elems, sort
10_000 elems, sort 20 elems...
for 10_000 elems:  7 wallclock secs ( 5.11 usr +  0.02 sys =  5.13 CPU) @
194931.77/s (n=1000000)
for 20 elems:  8 wallclock secs ( 5.44 usr +  0.01 sys =  5.45 CPU) @
183486.24/s (n=1000000)
sort 10_000 elems:  4 wallclock secs ( 2.99 usr + -0.02 sys =  2.97 CPU) @
336700.34/s (n=1000000)
sort 20 elems:  3 wallclock secs ( 3.22 usr + -0.04 sys =  3.18 CPU) @
314465.41/s (n=1000000)




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