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| author |   Michel A. BEGUE | 2019-05-09 19:14:07 +0200 |
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| committer |   Willy Sudiarto Raharjo | 2019-05-09 19:14:07 +0200 |
| commit | 0b6204961d0804b0e6d62fa3c0ced98963867407 (patch) | |
| tree | 0d56a8effe8bd0fd340fd9a144512c669824d27d /perl/perl-Set-IntSpan/README | |
| parent | b0f7b992836f8d1778ab0eb5bfc51b0279102c20 (diff) | |
| download | slackbuilds-0b6204961d0804b0e6d62fa3c0ced98963867407.tar.gz | |
perl/perl-Set-IntSpan: Added (Manages sets of integers).
Signed-off-by: Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>
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diff --git a/perl/perl-Set-IntSpan/README b/perl/perl-Set-IntSpan/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..485522b486 --- /dev/null +++ b/perl/perl-Set-IntSpan/README @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +perl-Set-IntSpan Manages sets of integers + +Set::IntSpan manages sets of integers. It is optimized for sets that +have long runs of consecutive integers. These arise, for example, in +.newsrc files, which maintain lists of articles: + +alt.foo: 1-21,28,31 +alt.bar: 1-14192,14194,14196-14221 + +A run of consecutive integers is also called a span. + +Sets are stored internally in a run-length coded form. This provides +for both compact storage and efficient computation. In particular, set +operations can be performed directly on the encoded representation. |