On 19 December 2010 19:54, James Foster <Smalltalk at jgfoster.net> wrote:
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> In GemStone we used to do a binary search on #'includes:' but a customer complained that they had a domain object where #'=' was implemented using different instance variables than #'<=' so that a linear search would find an equivalent object but a binary search would miss it. We changed #'includes:' to use a linear search and added another method, #'binarySearchIncludes:' to have the old (fast) behavior.
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i think this is a good compromise.

> James
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