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From: moore@june.cs.washington.edu (Charles Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: sorting times in Hypercard
Keywords: sorting, efficiency, Hypercard
Message-ID: <7771@june.cs.washington.edu>
Date: 4 Apr 89 00:12:16 GMT
Organization: U of Washington, Computer Science, Seattle
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I realize that this has been discussed before in this newsgroup but, at the
time, I wasn't interested so I didn't pay any attention.  Does anybody have
rough estimates as to how Hypercard sorting times degrade as more cards are
added to a stack?  I'm really only looking for fairly rough figures, e.g.
how long does it take to sort 100 cards?, 1000 cards?, 10000 cards? on, say,
a Mac SE or + with 1 MB of RAM and a hard disk.

Thanks in advance,

Charles Moore
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington