Re: GSoC idea proposal

[Pádraig Brady]

Glen Lenker wrote:
> I saw that the GNU project is a mentoring organization for this years
> Google Summer of Code. Would it be possible to extend my work on
> optimizing sort to this summer?

Great, Karl has done that:
http://socghop.appspot.com/org/show/google/gsoc2009/karlberry
http://www.gnu.org/software/soc-projects/ideas.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/summer-of-code/

> There are a few ideas on the table:
> 
> 1) Reducing the amount of time wasted with pthread_join
> 2) Merge Insertion and List Merge sort
> 3) Integrating our work with the other groups work
> 4) "In-between sort"

This would be great. Thanks for your enthusiasm Glen!
I've applied to be a mentor for the GNU project here:
http://socghop.appspot.com/org/apply_mentor/google/gsoc2009

I'll email address@hidden now with a link to your idea.

thanks,
Pádraig.