From: stefan-lucks@see-the.signature
Subject: Re: Normalizing array indices
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 21:49:56 +0100
Date: 2011-11-01T21:49:56+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1111012145550.10832@medsec1.medien.uni-weimar.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <j8hod2$qas$1@munin.nbi.dk>
On Sat, 29 Oct 2011, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> Of course, there is little reason to create a general purpose sort of your
> own, given that the Standard already contains two (and there is a third one
> added in Ada 2012). You pretty much have to have some special purpose to
> justify the work.
In that specific case, I wanted a sorting routine that would be able
split its work between different "workers" (Ada tasks, hopefully runing on
different processor cores), to benefit from parallelism.
The only reason not to use a more general index type was the ease to
compute the middle index ...
So long
Stefan
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-28 18:58 Normalizing array indices Stefan.Lucks
2011-10-28 20:36 ` Adam Beneschan
2011-11-01 20:18 ` Stefan.Lucks
2011-10-28 21:13 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-10-29 7:29 ` Pascal Obry
2011-10-29 19:18 ` Jeffrey Carter
2011-10-29 19:58 ` tmoran
2011-10-29 21:15 ` Simon Wright
2011-10-29 20:41 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-11-01 20:49 ` stefan-lucks [this message]
2011-11-01 20:44 ` stefan-lucks
2011-11-01 20:43 ` stefan-lucks
2011-11-02 12:16 ` Robert A Duff
2011-10-29 9:05 ` Simon Wright
2011-10-29 9:23 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-11-01 20:55 ` stefan-lucks
2011-11-02 12:14 ` Robert A Duff
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