Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 16:09:30 07/31/00
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On July 31, 2000 at 18:11:37, William H Rogers wrote: >On July 31, 2000 at 13:17:20, Larry Griffiths wrote: > >>I am currently using a bubble sort to sort my captures list. >> >>I plan to change it to a selection sort. >> >>Do any of you use another type of sort like quicksort to sort your lists or do >>you have any preferences? >> >>Larry :) > >When I was in college, they told us that with short lists, the old bubble sort >was faster than all of the newer sorts that were in vogue. I tried it out using >the old GWBasic and the bubble won with 50 or fewer items, so I would keep the >one that you are using. If it works, don't fix it. >Bill Remember, this is for the case when all items of a list must be sorted. Not so in chess (due to alpha-beta cutoffs). -Tom
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