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From: hui@fid.morgan.com (Roger Hui)
Subject: Re: efficient J programs (shellsort)
Message-ID: <1993May1.224246.29954@fid.morgan.com>
Organization: Morgan Stanley & Co., New York, NY
References: <1993Apr23.203153.822@csus.edu> <abalje47.735855110@ursa> <1993Apr27.061401.27676@csus.edu>
Date: Sat, 1 May 1993 22:42:46 GMT
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Emmett McLean wrote on 1993-04-27:

> Your question goes beyond my current knowledge of the
> implementation. When I suggested that the execution time of boxing
> in J compared favorably to other APL's I was repeating what I 
> remember Roger Hui as saying to the APL User's Group here in the
> Bay Area. 

What I said was, the efficiency of J is competitive with other APLs;
in fact, I have little idea of how boxing in particular compares
against boxing in other APLs.
