6 Apr
2009
6 Apr
'09
6:34 p.m.
In article <49D9DABB.6767.567DE224 at cclist.sydex.com>,
"Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com> writes:
I don't know if it's true anymore, but in the
EDP world, knowing how
to do an efficient external sort on tape (cf: oscillating merge,
polyphase merge, cascade merge, balanced merge) used to be a
requirement for a programmer. Now, it's probably a lost art.
Its not a lost art because several of these algorithms are documented
in Knuth's Art of Computer Programming.
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