Re: Simple problem - complicated solution - performanc

Stuart,

The performance will remain linear if a DVC algorithm is used.

Read about DVC algorithms and their optimisation at:

http://vbxml.com/snippetcentral/main.asp?view=viewsnippet&lang=&id=v20020107050418

and 

http://www.topxml.com/xsl/articles/recurse/

Many functions in FXSL have their DVC implementation.

Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev.


"Stuart Celarier" <stuart at ferncrk dot com> wrote:

Dimitre raises an interesting point about using recursion for computing
the minimum and maximum values of a set of data. Let me throw this
question back out to the list, especially to people with XSLT
implementation experience: 

It seems like there must be some practical limits to recursion since
that would involve a call stack in memory. Is it reasonable to think
about recursion that stacks up a couple of thousand or tens of
thousands
of calls deep? Taking a page fault on a call stack seems like it could
get very expensive very quickly.

Clearly computing a the minimum and maximum should require linear time,
O(n). But if the computation itself doesn't scale well, then a
seemingly
O(n) algorithm could perform much worse in practice. Comments?

Cheers,
Stuart




__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience
http://launch.yahoo.com

 XSL-List info and archive:  http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list