Local functions

[Mark Thornton]

Jesse Kuhnert wrote:
> That sounds completely reasonable to me .. (esp after recently reading
> http://prog21.dadgum.com/61.html - which supports the idea that
> parallel sorting algorithms shouldn't be done automatically)
>   

No it supports the idea that the parallel sorting should take place 
somewhere else. In my work, our customers will usually tolerate a 
computation taking up to about 15 minutes. Beyond that they start to 
complain, and at an hour they complain a lot. I concede that there 
probably aren't too many on this list writing applications that take 
that long to execute.

Mark