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The heap is a data structure that I use all the time and that others somehow use rarely. (I once had a coworker tell me that he knew some code was mine because it used a heap) Recently I was writing code that could really benefit from using a heap (as most code can) but...
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These days it's a pretty bold claim if you say that you invented a sorting algorithm that's 30% faster than state of the art. Unfortunately I have to make a far bolder claim: I wrote a sorting algorithm that's twice as fast as std::sort for many inputs. And except when I specifically construct cases that...
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APT 2.9.3 introduces the first iteration of the new solver codenamed solver3, and now available with the -solver 3.0 option. The new solver works fundamentally different from the old one. How does it work? Solver3 is a fully backtracking dependency solving algorithm that defers choices to as late as possible. It starts with an empty set of packages, then adds the manually installed packages, and then installs packages automatically as necessary to satisfy the dependencies.
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A review by a Rust enthusiast
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