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Compilation Tape Efficiency

From: rosen@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU (Rob Rosen)
Date: 23 May 87 05:25:02 GMT
Subject: Compilation Tape Efficiency
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	I hate to play the role of the die-hard engineer, but after perusing
Andrew's posting of the (rather large) current state of the compilation tape
recipients, it seems to me that a great deal of time would be saved if we
did some pre-sorting.  

	Examining the list reveals that the tape will cross the country 
something like six times (and the Atlantic twice, I might add).  If we managed
to sort all the addresses such that the tape started at one end of the world
and traveled over to the end, passing over the recipients along the way, we
would save a considerable amount of time and money.

	Just an idea.  I can easily see the tape being completed (if it ever
DOES manage to run the entire route) by next spring...

	%%Rob

		Rob Rosen
		Computer Systems Support Group
		University of California

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