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BrowserUk,
I have already maximized the efficiency in determining the distance between two selections using bitmasks. As stated, I know that full cross comparison is necessary in some cases. I was just hoping that I could prune that full cross comparison in cases where I knew a compare couldn't lead to a higher distance than I already have. There is one trivial case where this short circuiting works (when 2 items are the maximum distance possible). I was hoping there might be others assuming the data will be mostly similar.

Cheers - L~R

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by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jan 15, 2014 at 17:02 UTC
    There is one trivial case where this short circuiting works (when 2 items are the maximum distance possible).

    "two items"? Are items people? Or categories?

    What is the "maximum distance"? No categories the same. How can you know that until you have compared all categories for the given pair? What are you short circuiting?

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