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From: Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Using Java Classes to Sort a Small Array Quickly
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On 9/1/2011 12:25 AM, Eric Sosman wrote:
>[...] If Arrays.sort takes a microsecond while
> yours takes 100 nanoseconds, and if all your investigation and
> implementation (and writing to Usenet) took just ten minutes, you
> need more than six hundred billion fast sorts merely to break even.

     "For suitable values of a billion," like those that begin
with an "M" instead of a "B."

     <FX: dope slap>

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Eric Sosman
esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid