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David Haley USA (3,881 posts)

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Reply #30 on Sat 10 Feb 2007 09:49 PM (UTC)

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The caching is just to resort a copy the skill table. So there are two copies at all times: (a) the main one, sorted by name, in which the binary searches are done. (b) the type-sorted one, only used for the practice command at present.

Sorting the skill table does not take much more time than what is needed to run the practice command in the first place. But to maintain the behavior of practice (sorted by type) without having a type-sorted table would be somewhat expensive.

Besides, in order for the new binary search to work, the skill table has to be resorted.

But... hrm. That could be problematic, because if a skill is referenced by number, and the table is resorted, that number could now point to a different thing. That must be why they had that extra segment at the top of the skill list that would be searched linearly in case the skill wasn't found in the rest. I will need to look into this because it could be potentially disastrous. Hrm. Drat.

David Haley aka Ksilyan
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Conner USA (381 posts)

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Reply #31 on Sun 11 Feb 2007 12:59 AM (UTC)

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Sorry about the monkey wrench, but better to have all the bases covered. ;)

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