>What's cheaper: A - maintaining a sorted queue or, B - inserting events unsorted, and sorting after? If the events are generally generated in order, then A If there are less than 20 events per timeslice, then A If there are more than 20 events, and they are generated in random order, then B. ( from "Numerical Recipies in C" ) So i guess it depends. That's why I figured having the host presenting the events pre-sorted was a good idea. That way you (the host coder) can do either A or B. Jeff ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Generalized Music Plugin Interface (GMPI) public discussion list Participation in this list is contingent upon your abiding by the following rules: Please stay on topic. You are responsible for your own words. Please respect your fellow subscribers. Please do not redistribute anyone else's words without their permission. Archive: http://www.freelists.org/archives/gmpi Email gmpi-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx w/ subject "unsubscribe" to unsubscribe