Re: choosing powerful primitives for a simplified computing system

> So what would it mean if you could replace most sorting and searching
> code with the use of a single suffix-array primitive?  Things would be
> a constant factor slower, but how much slower?


J's "E." (Member of Interval) verb looks suspiciously like something  
which might (the multidimensional examples give pause) use suffix  
arrays under the hood:

http://www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/decapdot.htm

It might be worth a look through the index to see how it's used in  
that environment:

http://www.jsoftware.com/help/index/e.htm

-Dave

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