[perl-python] a program to delete duplicate files

David Eppstein eppstein at ics.uci.edu
Fri Mar 11 17:06:27 EST 2005


In article <4232079b$1 at news.vo.lu>,
 Patrick Useldinger <pu.news.001 at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Well, but the spec didn't say efficiency was the primary criterion, it 
> > said minimizing the number of comparisons was.
> 
> That's exactly what my program does.

If you're doing any comparisons at all, you're not minimizing the number 
of comparisons.

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David Eppstein
Computer Science Dept., Univ. of California, Irvine
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/



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