At 10:29 PM 10/12/99 -0500, Ken Kriesel wrote:

 > What sort algorithm are those figures for?  In what programming language?
>Which compiler?

It was insertion sort, based on Bentley's pseudocode, so it was the same 
algorithm. I coded it in Pascal, he did it in C.  I used Stony Brook 
Pascal+ ver 7.10, I don't know what compiler he used, but it was probably 
the standard C compiler for the VAX.


>There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.  Then there are benchmarks...

There are some variables that are not accounted for.


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