chrismandelics

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   by chrismandelics 4mo ago

   Same here. I ran into a similar situation mapping municipal data ( https://wwwww.buffalo.mandelics.com/w5/around-buffalo.html ) plus I needed to be able to click a point and see the event(s) behind it. I ended up doing a
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   Solving Dense Acrostics Quickly(mandelics.com)

   1 points by chrismandelics 2y ago|0 comments
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   by chrismandelics 4y ago

   Also worth noting: default JS `Array.sort()` converts everything to strings and compares them lexically -- so 80 comes before 9. It's a little faster to sort them as numbers: `.sort((a, b) => a - b)` takes me around 40 seconds in C
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   by chrismandelics 4y ago

   Plain JS numeric code _can_ be really fast if you stick to typed arrays. I tried the posted JS in Chrome on an aging thinkpad and each `testSort()` took as long as 125 seconds (32 seconds in Firefox). But when I replaced `Array` with `Floa