Large Dictionaries

Marcin Ciura Marcin.Ciura at NOSPAM.poczta.onet.pl
Fri Jun 9 08:10:00 EDT 2006


Duncan Booth wrote:
> Marcin Ciura wrote:
>>See Figure 8 in
>>http://sun.iinf.polsl.gliwice.pl/~mciura/shellsort.pdf
> That isn't what the reference says. It only covers N up to a few thousand. 
> Practical values of N need to at least go up into the millions.

Please look at the performance graph of Tokuda's increment sequence.
You can see that it scales pretty well at least up to 100 million.
   Marcin



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