Researching Searching Algorithms?

Posted by Cliff on Tuesday October 22, 2002 @12:46AM from the has-this-been-done-before dept.

NiN3x asks: "I have recently written a sorting algorithm that can be close to four times as fast as quicksort and never much slower. I was wondering if there are lots of sorting algorithms like this out there. I don't think I could be the only one that has thought of something like this. I am only in my second year of computer science, so I don't know a lot about these things. I have tried searching the net and can't find anything. My algorithm is NOT an inplace sorting algorithm. Can anyone point me to some sources for this type of thing?"

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That's it. by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-22 01:32 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I call bullshit on this one.
If the sorting algorithm is so superior, why not post it, so everyone can give critique?
If it's not broken in some manner, i bet Knuth already covered it in his bible on the topic.
Even if it is broken, Knuth probably already covered why.

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Seems Cliff has stood for at least 90% of the "Ask slashdot"s lately, and 100% of the dumb ones. I wonder how many he made up himself.
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