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Subject: Re: Normalizing array indices
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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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