Re: Natural "for" Loop, using Plural / Singular transformations ??

glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu>
15 Jun 2006 15:01:45 -0400

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From: glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 15 Jun 2006 15:01:45 -0400
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 06-05-083 06-06-004 06-06-035 06-06-037
Keywords: design
Posted-Date: 15 Jun 2006 15:01:44 EDT

Jonathan Thornburg wrote:


(snip)


> Consider the following basic-computer-science-algorithms exercise:
> Given two lists (1-D arrays) of numbers, suggest a
> "reasonably efficient" algorithm to find all numbers
> which are common to both lists.


(snip of hash table and sort solutions)


The last time I needed to do this, I needed to find the non-duplicates
between two lists that each had a fair number of duplicates.


Using the unix sort -u command on each list sorts each list while
removing duplicates. (As an external sort, it should remove duplicates
for each sort group before writing them to disk. I don't know if it
does that, though.)


With two sorted lists with duplicates removed, sort -m (merge)
and uniq (with the appropriate option) can detect duplicate or
non-duplicate values.


For very large lists, the sort can be done as an external sort,
where hash tables are usually not external.


-- glen



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