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Parallel Quicksort: an exploration of concurrent programming in Ada
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Volume II ,  Issue 2  (September/October 1982) table of contents
Pages: 61 - 68  
Year of Publication: 1982
ISSN:1094-3641
Author
Norman H. Cohen  Systems and Software Research, Sperry Univac, Blue Bell, Pennsylvania
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ACM  New York, NY, USA
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ABSTRACT

We develop an Ada Quicksort program which sorts disjoint subsections of an array concurrently. This exercise reveals pitfalls which Ada programmers using tasks must strive to avoid.


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Hoare, C. A. R. Quicksort. <u>Computer Journal 5</u>, No. 4 (April 1962), 10--15
 
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McCarthy, J. Towards a mathematical science of computation. <u>Information Processing 1962: Proceedings of IFIP Congress 62</u>, Cicely M. Popplewell, ed., Munich, August-September 1962. Published by North-Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1963, 21--28
 
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<u>Reference Manual for the Ada Programming Language: Proposed Standard Document</u>. United States Department of Defense, July 1980
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