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freebsd-ports/math/p5-Set-IntSpan/pkg-descr
Steve Price 4c5f003a95 Initial import of p5-Set-IntSpan.
A perl module for managing sets of integers.

PR:		7163
Submitted by:	Don Croyle <croyle@gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us>
1998-12-24 06:46:58 +00:00

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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
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.