Many thanks for all the replies on this.

I implemented randomly swapping elements and my original 'unique' method in
a pg:pro project which is available (via private e-mail) in both FBII and
FB^3 for anyone who might be interested.

Interestingly enough for 320 elements on my 266MH powerbook G3
the unique method is about 4 times slower than the swap method.

Native PPC code is twice as fast as 68K.

The slowest time was 6 ticks (unique method, 68K)
The fastest time was 0 ticks (swap method, ppc)

This little app marks the first time I have successfully transferred an FBII
project to FB^3...

Yeaaah!

Cheers,


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