Thanks to Knuth SKA's Merging Stage 1 is 90% faster

[OrangeHopper]

George.

[Churchill]

George.

DME!!! PLAN!!! Ooooer... I'm off to touch m'sen!

[expat]

I doubt many of you even opened his awesome book "Art of Computer Programming", yet alone understood and applied successfully some of the algorithms from it.
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Read it in the 70's. Don't teach your grandmother to suck eggs.

[Clownio]

I doubt many of you even opened his awesome book "Art of Computer Programming", yet alone understood and applied successfully some of the algorithms from it.

Nope ! - what a f**king boring book that must be

Come to think of it most of you (especially SandyDown) deal with primitive problems that can be done using VB's of this world. I mean, how many of you worked on tasks that require efficient sorting of a few billions of numbers?

Who cares

Next week I will be using assembly language for the first time in many years to optimise yet another part of SKA - I am smiling at the pleasure I will have making a few functions run 10 times faster

Are you really "smiling at the pleasure I will have making a few functions run 10 times faster"?? - You do know how to enjoy yourself don't you.

[bogeyman]

Oh God - not another twat who thinks he's...

...the first to read Knuth?

Good God, it's been around since Moses was a baby.

It's the software engineer's equivalent of Gray's Anatomy.

And yet you pitch up like you're the first programmer who ever read it.

And you're going to do some 'real assembler programming' erm... 'next week'.

Oh! for ****'s sake!

Bogey

[ratewhore]

Atw, you must be at the top of peoples lists for party invites...

...life and soul, life and soul.

[sasguru]

Atw. Your posts (not just this one) have been becoming increasingly hysterical of late.
I diagnose either need-a-shag-itis or fear-of-failure-itis or both.
You can at least fix the former, even if you have you pay.

[DodgyAgent]

Atw. Your posts (not just this one) have been becoming increasingly hysterical of late.
I diagnose either need-a-shag-itis or fear-of-failure-itis or both.
You can at least fix the former, even if you have you pay.

The only thing that technology has brought us is the ability to transfer jobs to India.

[OwlHoot]

Hey AtW, are you still wrapped up in the minutiae of getting your search engine working, or does SKA have provision yet to track sponsored links, with a client API to let clients do the same?

I'm getting pretty intensive experience with APIs for Google, Overture, and MIVA, and shortly MSN. So if you're interested, I might volunteer to help (for a piece of the million).

[AtW]

No ads just yet - I am scaling it up, had update 10 days ago and will have one this week, by the end of February I will get to 1 bln pages which is reasonably respectable - I think its Top 10 in the world.

After actual search traffic will pick it will make sense to think about ads, even though I have other short-term plans on how to earn dosh from data