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Top Forums Programming How to evaluate which coding approach is best? Post 302380220 by Corona688 on Monday 14th of December 2009 02:37:28 PM
Old 12-14-2009
It's very hard to give a general answer without knowing what methods are being considered.

"Best for what" is often a good question... As an example, hash tables can be very fast to read best-case, but used badly they can be no better than a linear search. They're also space-inefficient, strewing information thinly by design... You wouldn't want to use them to store huge amounts of data. Trees are slower to read than a hash table's best, but a balanced tree's worst case time is smaller than a poorly hashed table -- but adding to or changing a tree can be complicated and slow since it may need balancing. Not all data is really suitable for either anyway...

So, more information's needed.
 

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NAME
manconv - convert manual page from one encoding to another SYNOPSIS
manconv -f from-code[:from-code...] -t to-code [-dqhV] [filename] DESCRIPTION
manconv converts a manual page from one encoding to another, like iconv. Unlike iconv, it can try multiple possible input encodings in sequence. This is useful for manual pages installed in directories without an explicit encoding declaration, since they may be in UTF-8 or in a legacy character set. If an encoding declaration is found on the first line of the manual page, that declaration overrides any input encodings specified on man- conv's command line. Encoding declarations have the following form: '" -*- coding: UTF-8 -*- or (if manual page preprocessors are also to be declared): '" t -*- coding: ISO-8859-1 -*- OPTIONS
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iconv(1), man(1) AUTHOR
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