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Subject:	Re: Rebel Blockade Runner . . . Holy Crap ! !
Newsgroups:	lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build
Date:	Mon, 6 May 2002 16:37:46 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Larry Pieniazek writes: > My thinking here is that there is a polynomial or even exponential time > function at work with large sets. The more parts a set has, the greater the > fraction of total build time is spent looking for a particular part. The way > to decrease that fraction is to sort the parts first. Yeah, that's often what I do for large sets. I won't quite *sort* the pieces so much as empty out the bags into seperate piles. And since all the X pieces in Y color come in a single bag (usually), it saves actually having to *really* sort the pieces, and still gets them mildly organized. For the RBR I had an entire box dedicated to the baggies that contained the engine parts... DaveE

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		Re: Rebel Blockade Runner . . . Holy Crap ! !
(...) Why dump the parts out of the bags? Usually, the parts are organized mostly by size -- all the smallest parts in one bag, all the biggest parts in another bag, and then everything in between going whereever it goes. Once you learn which bag (...) (23 years ago, 6-May-02, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build)

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		Re: Rebel Blockade Runner . . . Holy Crap ! !
My thinking here is that there is a polynomial or even exponential time function at work with large sets. The more parts a set has, the greater the fraction of total build time is spent looking for a particular part. The way to decrease that (...) (23 years ago, 6-May-02, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build)

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