1.1: A Little Past History

• TPC3 in Monterey, CA 1999
• Co-wrote and presented "A Fresh Look at Efficient Perl Sorting" http://www.sysarch.com/perl/sort_paper.html
• Co-author was Larry Rosler (retired from HP and Perl)
• Introduced the GRT as a way to speed up Perl sorts
• It won the prize for Best Technical Paper
• A module Sort::Records was promised which would implement the GRT
• Sort::Records was started but a code and design review showed many problems.
• Sort::Records was shelved during development because of a code review
• People still write to me asking about that module