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Date: Fri, 06 Jun 1997 09:55:17 -0700
From: Ben Shadwick <bshadwick AT juno DOT com>
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Subject: Re: LinkedLists
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Timothy Robb wrote:
> I've given up on Quick Sorting my list because I will be adding one item
> at a time to it and the add function will call the sort function, as a
> result Insertion Sort would probably be the best method.
> 
> My next problem is binary searching through a linked list....

You'd probably be better off turning your linked list into a binary search tree (a 
sorted tree), which, if a good tree is built, yields a searching performance comparable 
to that of a binary search when used on contiguous lists (arrays). Binary search and 
quicksort are really bad for use on linked lists because the elements in a linked list 
cannot each be accessed in the same amount of time (i.e. linked lists don't have random 
access).

Ben Shadwick, Sysop, Mars Base BBS, (360)882-0773, Vancouver, WA, USA
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