Re: Recapping on “Bug Sort”.

[Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>]

On 06/22/2012 12:55 PM, Austin Obyrne wrote:
>
> I have been told that my program resembles a known sort program called
> �Counting Sort�.  I would hate to be guilty of plagiarism and I would like to
> point out therefore that the salient thing about my �Parallel Sort� is that
> my implementation is geared to capturing data during any unrelated program
> run-time and assigning the data in such a way that the separate elements
> index their own addresses in the sorting arrays.  A similarity with some
> other existing paper algorithm is simply fortuitous.

What you have presented is an implementation of counting sort, nothing more. 
There is nothing new or unique about your implementation.

-- 
Jeff Carter
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public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system,
and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"
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