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mbostock·Mar 19, 2012

Yep. Typed arrays don't have a built-in sort method, and even the built-in array.sort is extremely slow. I ported Dart's dual-pivot quicksort implementation, which reduced the time to sort 1M floats from ~2.5s to ~350ms (timed in Node v0.6.2). https://github.com/square/tesseract/blob/master/src/quicksor...

In Square open-sources Tesseract: fast filtering for coordinated views

spaznode·Mar 19, 2012

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesseract "In geometry, the tesseract, also called an 8-cell or regular octachoron or cubic prism, is the four-dimensional analog of the cube. The tesseract is to the cube as the cube is to the square. Just as the surface of the cube consists of 6 square faces, the hypersurface of the tesseract consists of 8 cubical cells." Looks like the perfect name to me. Sounds like the "other" project already has an established name of "tesseract ocr", don't see any reason why this library would be confused with that. Lame for people to focus on this instead of the crazy beautiful api that comes with this thing: https://github.com/square/tesseract/wiki/API-Reference

In Square open-sources Tesseract: fast filtering for coordinated views

zdw·Mar 19, 2012

Bug filed on their github issues page: https://github.com/square/tesseract/issues/1

In Square open-sources Tesseract: fast filtering for coordinated views