Answering to another question, I wrote the program below to compare different search methods in a sorted array. Basically I compared two implementations of Interpolation search
Posting my current version before the question is closed (hopefully I will thus be able to ehance it later). For now it is worse than every other versions (if someone understand why my changes to the end of loop has this effect, comments are welcome).
int newSearch(int sortedArray[], int toFind, int len)
{
// Returns index of toFind in sortedArray, or -1 if not found
int low = 0;
int high = len - 1;
int mid;
int l = sortedArray[low];
int h = sortedArray[high];
while (l < toFind && h > toFind) {
mid = low + ((float)(high - low)*(float)(toFind - l))/(1+(float)(h-l));
int m = sortedArray[mid];
if (m < toFind) {
l = sortedArray[low = mid + 1];
} else if (m > toFind) {
h = sortedArray[high = mid - 1];
} else {
return mid;
}
}
if (l == toFind)
return low;
else if (h == toFind)
return high;
else
return -1; // Not found
}