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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor•com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl•org>
Cc: bert hubert <ahu@ds9a•nl>, Christopher Li <git@chrisli•org>,
	git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: Yet another base64 patch
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 18:06:28 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <425F1394.5020709@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0504141743360.7211@ppc970.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> Even something as simple as "ls -l" has been known to have O(n**2)  
> behaviour for big directories.
> 

For filesystems with linear directories, sure.  For sane filesystems, it 
should have O(n log n).

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2005-04-15  1:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-14  4:19 Yet another base64 patch H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-14  2:24 ` Christopher Li
2005-04-14  5:36   ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-14  2:42     ` Christopher Li
2005-04-14  6:27       ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-14  6:35         ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-14  7:40         ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-14 16:58           ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-14 17:42             ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-14 19:11               ` bert hubert
2005-04-14 19:25                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-14 21:47                   ` bert hubert
2005-04-15  0:44                     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-15  1:06                       ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2005-04-17  4:10                         ` David Lang
2005-04-18  6:23                           ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-15  1:07                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-15  3:58                         ` Paul Jackson
2005-04-17  3:53                           ` David A. Wheeler
2005-04-17  4:05                             ` Paul Jackson
2005-04-17  6:38                               ` David A. Wheeler
2005-04-17  8:16                                 ` Paul Jackson
2005-04-17 17:51                                   ` David A. Wheeler
2005-04-17 18:19                                 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-18  5:13                                   ` David A. Wheeler
2005-04-18 12:59                                     ` Kevin Smith
2005-04-18 16:42                                       ` David A. Wheeler
2005-04-17 14:30                               ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-04-17 16:29                                 ` David A. Wheeler
2005-04-14  4:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-14  8:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-14 17:02   ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-15 23:55 ` Paul Dickson
2005-04-18  6:28   ` H. Peter Anvin

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