Re: [stella] Bubble Sort

Subject: Re: [stella] Bubble Sort
From: Julian Squires <tek@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 13:32:22 -0330
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 05:53:55PM +0100, Thomas Jentzsch wrote:
> What Knuth doesn't write about, are the special cases we are 
> talking about: 
> - small Ns (<20) and 
> - nearly sorted values
> - little extra memory needed
> - small code size

Actually, he does, which is what sets him apart from most other
computer science authors. Which is why he uses assembly language to
demonstrate the algorithms and talks about the words of storage and
the cycles taken.

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