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Ray Gardner
Personal blog · raygard.netprogrammingsystems
Ray Gardner's personal blog at raygard.net covers programming and systems. Since 2023, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “An Awk Implementation in C99”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Ray Gardner's posts on re-engineering a qsort implementation and on the quadsort sorting algorithm. One commenter cited a post for benchmark results that count comparisons.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Anything I want to put here, I put here.
Most-linked posts?
- An Awk Implementation in C992 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-03-27
What Hacker News says?
Here you can see how an older version of quadsort beats some benchmarks that include the number of comparisons: https://www.raygard.net/2022/03/09/Re-engineering-a-qsort-pa...
Comment linking /2022/03/09/Re-engineering-a-qsort-part-5/
on “Show HN: QuadSort, Esoteric Fast Sort”Submitted Parsing Awk Is Tricky as a story · 110 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Awk Implementation in C99 as a story · 107 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Awk Implementation as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted Re-engineering a qsort function (part 1) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion