Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!yale!cmcl2!kramden.acf.nyu.edu!brnstnd From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: A very brief history of optimal sorting methods Message-ID: <24823:Nov1218:52:0990@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> Date: 12 Nov 90 18:52:09 GMT References: <6913:Nov1008:23:5690@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <16709:Nov1113:56:2390@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <237@smds.UUCP> Organization: IR Lines: 8 In article <237@smds.UUCP> rh@smds.UUCP (Richard Harter) writes: > If you do a radix sort > you make multiple passes over the data. In each pass you move all of the > records. Wrong. ---Dan