Re: [m-users.] lists and sets, unordered or ordered.
"Zoltan Somogyi" <[email protected]>
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On 2023-10-04 07:55 +11:00 AEDT, "Sean Charles (emacstheviking)" <[email protected]> wrote: > Indeed. nothing in my drafts folder and I swear it was complete before I hit send... well, > basically, > is there a reason you can't get an unsorted de-duped list from a set? Yes, there is. The reason is that any algorithm to remove duplicates from an unsorted list will either - sort the list (which is O(n log n), or - have worse efficiency than an algorithm that sorts the list. Zoltan. _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mercurylang.org/listinfo/users