/* -*- Mode: js; js-indent-level: 2; -*- */ /* * Copyright 2011 Mozilla Foundation and contributors * Licensed under the New BSD license. See LICENSE or: * http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause */ if (typeof define !== 'function') { var define = require('amdefine')(module, require); } define(function (require, exports, module) { /** * Recursive implementation of binary search. * * @param aLow Indices here and lower do not contain the needle. * @param aHigh Indices here and higher do not contain the needle. * @param aNeedle The element being searched for. * @param aHaystack The non-empty array being searched. * @param aCompare Function which takes two elements and returns -1, 0, or 1. */ function recursiveSearch(aLow, aHigh, aNeedle, aHaystack, aCompare) { // This function terminates when one of the following is true: // // 1. We find the exact element we are looking for. // // 2. We did not find the exact element, but we can return the index of // the next closest element that is less than that element. // // 3. We did not find the exact element, and there is no next-closest // element which is less than the one we are searching for, so we // return -1. var mid = Math.floor((aHigh - aLow) / 2) + aLow; var cmp = aCompare(aNeedle, aHaystack[mid], true); if (cmp === 0) { // Found the element we are looking for. return mid; } else if (cmp > 0) { // aHaystack[mid] is greater than our needle. if (aHigh - mid > 1) { // The element is in the upper half. return recursiveSearch(mid, aHigh, aNeedle, aHaystack, aCompare); } // We did not find an exact match, return the next closest one // (termination case 2). return mid; } else { // aHaystack[mid] is less than our needle. if (mid - aLow > 1) { // The element is in the lower half. return recursiveSearch(aLow, mid, aNeedle, aHaystack, aCompare); } // The exact needle element was not found in this haystack. Determine if // we are in termination case (2) or (3) and return the appropriate thing. return aLow < 0 ? -1 : aLow; } } /** * This is an implementation of binary search which will always try and return * the index of next lowest value checked if there is no exact hit. This is * because mappings between original and generated line/col pairs are single * points, and there is an implicit region between each of them, so a miss * just means that you aren't on the very start of a region. * * @param aNeedle The element you are looking for. * @param aHaystack The array that is being searched. * @param aCompare A function which takes the needle and an element in the * array and returns -1, 0, or 1 depending on whether the needle is less * than, equal to, or greater than the element, respectively. */ exports.search = function search(aNeedle, aHaystack, aCompare) { if (aHaystack.length === 0) { return -1; } return recursiveSearch(-1, aHaystack.length, aNeedle, aHaystack, aCompare) }; });