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From: Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
Subject: Re: Recapping on “Bug Sort”.
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 13:00:48 -0700
Date: 2012-06-23T13:00:48-07:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <js579i$btv$1@adenine.netfront.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b3b69b5c-bccf-457d-a6ea-1dbd455602f3@googlegroups.com>

On 06/23/2012 12:07 PM, Austin Obyrne wrote:
>
> The very salient thing that everybody is missing is the way the data is
> collected and sorted simultaneously in "Parallel Sort" compared to Count
> Sort.

What you are missing is that you have seen 2 implementations of Counting Sort. 
The one in Wikipedia is presented as a standalone subprogram that gets an input 
array of values and sorts it into an output array. This is how a reusable 
implementation would look. Since Counting Sort is not a general sorting 
algorithm, few real implementations will look like this. Instead, they will look 
like:

Your implementation, which is not a standalone subprogram nor reusable, that has 
the operations of the algorithm scattered through the program that is 
collecting/generating the data to be sorted.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"Ah, go away or I'll kill ya."
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-06-23 20:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-22 19:55 Recapping on “Bug Sort” Austin Obyrne
2012-06-22 20:45 ` Jeffrey Carter
2012-06-23  6:50   ` Austin Obyrne
2012-06-23  7:54   ` Austin Obyrne
2012-06-23 10:20     ` Austin Obyrne
2012-06-23 13:08       ` Austin Obyrne
2012-06-23 14:21         ` Austin Obyrne
2012-06-23 14:57           ` Austin Obyrne
2012-06-23 15:59             ` Austin Obyrne
2012-06-23 16:07             ` Pascal Obry
2012-06-23 16:12               ` Austin Obyrne
2012-06-23 16:19               ` Austin Obyrne
2012-06-23 17:05               ` Austin Obyrne
2012-06-23 18:17           ` Niklas Holsti
2012-06-23 19:21             ` Austin Obyrne
2012-06-23 20:19               ` Ludovic Brenta
2012-06-23 18:05       ` Niklas Holsti
2012-06-23 19:07         ` Austin Obyrne
2012-06-23 19:40           ` Austin Obyrne
2012-06-23 20:00           ` Jeffrey Carter [this message]
2012-06-23 20:21             ` Austin Obyrne
2012-06-23 20:12           ` Niklas Holsti
2012-06-23 20:49             ` Austin Obyrne
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