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20 <li> TPC3 in Monterey, CA 1999
22 <li> Co-wrote and presented "A Fresh Look at Efficient Perl Sorting"
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26 <li> Co-author was Larry Rosler (retired from HP and Perl)
28 <li> Introduced the GRT as a way to speed up Perl sorts
30 <li> It won the prize for Best Technical Paper
32 <li> A module Sort::Records was promised which would implement the GRT
34 <li> Sort::Records was started but a code and design review showed many
37 <li> Sort::Records was shelved during development because of a code review
39 <li> People still write to me asking about that module
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