topN using a heap

Ilya via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon Jan 18 15:44:58 PST 2016


On Monday, 18 January 2016 at 23:27:19 UTC, Ivan Kazmenko wrote:
> On Monday, 18 January 2016 at 23:18:03 UTC, Ilya wrote:
>> A RNGs don't improve worst case. It only changes an 
>> permutation for worst case. --Ilya
>
> Still, use of RNG makes it impossible to construct the worst 
> case beforehand, once and for all.  In that sense, this is a 
> regression.

No, it is definitely possible, because RNGs are Pseudo-RNGs. 
--Ilya


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