Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Roedy Green Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Did the sort do anything? Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 07:42:51 -0700 Organization: Canadian Mind Products Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: <9303hcFq0nU1@mid.individual.net> Reply-To: Roedy Green NNTP-Posting-Host: RCd/Ul4tyxGUBII8WGwa5g.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:4055 On Wed, 11 May 2011 20:40:43 +0200, Robert Klemme wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : >What would the benefit of this be? A very simple example would be a sort utility that reads data into RAM and sorts it. If the sort did not change the order, there is no need to write it back. -- Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products http://mindprod.com How long did it take after the car was invented before owners understood cars would not work unless you regularly changed the oil and the tires? We have gone 33 years and still it is rare to uncover a user who understands computers don't work without regular backups.