joaonmatos·há 4 meses·discussThis is not much different than CloudWatch metric events. At Amazon we output a service log or Embedded Metrics Format event with these things.
joaonmatos·há 8 meses·discussProf. Jaime Villate taught us physics at U. Porto and made heavy use of Maxima. Good times :D
joaonmatos·há 3 anos·discussIt is the exact same situation, though. Most people can just chain a sort and a binary search to do it, and both are included in most languages. Or just put it into a tree map, if your language has it.
joaonmatos·há 3 anos·discussAre you even manually implementing sorts frequently?Even languages that are notorious for having tiny libraries, like C and JS, have built-in sorts.