Is it better?
• Total time is now O(b+m2n) instead of O(m2n2)
– b is the number of bins
– Note: m is small; n is big
• But we have lost accuracy and the array of bins can
be expensive
– Can be a very large array
– Most bins are empty anyway
– Note: could use a bit-array, but it’s still large
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