Comparing lists

[Christian Stapfer]

"jon" <jon_usenet at capisco.com> wrote in message 
news:1129216693.445956.155490 at g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>
> To take the heat out of the discussion:
>
> sets are blazingly fast.

I'd prefer a (however) rough characterization
of computational complexity in terms of Big-Oh
(or Big-whatever) *anytime* to marketing-type
characterizations like this one...

Regards,
Christian