• To: "Rich Salz" <rsalz@d...>
• Subject: Re: genx - consensus items
• From: "Karl Waclawek" <karl@w...>
• Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 13:49:55 -0500
• Cc: <xml-dev@l...>
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rich Salz" <rsalz@d...>


> > Naively I would think that if you have N attributes you
> > have to perform N*(N-1)/2 comparisons to detect duplicates
> > (not good for large N as this grows quadratically).
> 
> Does it matter?  Premature optimization is the root of all evil... -- Hoare.

Maybe not, but that was the topic.

Karl

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