->My question is will this lag the mud having to continually run through a ->for loop of up to say 200 names? Daniel Wrote: >Doing anything a lot will take up time. The worst case scenario is >that we go through all 200 names. So, worst case for the 5 humans >walking into a room with 10 humans is: > > 200 * 15 * 14 = 42000 searches Actually, with a sorted list of idnumbers: log(200) * 15 * 14 = 1680 2 is the worst case. And its not searches, it's comparisons. 1680 integer comparisons would not take much time at all. --Sean +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ensure that you have read the CircleMUD Mailing List FAQ: | | http://democracy.queensu.ca/~fletcher/Circle/list-faq.html | +------------------------------------------------------------+
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