Re: [xml-dev] genx - consensus items

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From: "Rich Salz" <>


> > Naively I would think that if you have N attributes you
> > have to perform N*(N-1)/2 comparisons to detect duplicates
> > (not good for large N as this grows quadratically).
> 
> Does it matter?  Premature optimization is the root of all evil... -- Hoare.

Maybe not, but that was the topic.

Karl