1<html> 2<head> 3<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> 4<title>Acknowledgements</title> 5<link rel="stylesheet" href="../../../../../../../doc/src/boostbook.css" type="text/css"> 6<meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.79.1"> 7<link rel="home" href="../../../index.html" title="Boost.Sort"> 8<link rel="up" href="../spreadsort.html" title="2.1.-Spreadsort"> 9<link rel="prev" href="faq.html" title="Frequently Asked Questions"> 10<link rel="next" href="bibliog.html" title="Bibliography"> 11</head> 12<body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"> 13<table cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr> 14<td valign="top"><img alt="Boost C++ Libraries" width="277" height="86" src="../../../../../../../boost.png"></td> 15<td align="center"><a href="../../../../../../../index.html">Home</a></td> 16<td align="center"><a href="../../../../../../../libs/libraries.htm">Libraries</a></td> 17<td align="center"><a href="http://www.boost.org/users/people.html">People</a></td> 18<td align="center"><a href="http://www.boost.org/users/faq.html">FAQ</a></td> 19<td align="center"><a href="../../../../../../../more/index.htm">More</a></td> 20</tr></table> 21<hr> 22<div class="spirit-nav"> 23<a accesskey="p" href="faq.html"><img src="../../../../../../../doc/src/images/prev.png" alt="Prev"></a><a accesskey="u" href="../spreadsort.html"><img src="../../../../../../../doc/src/images/up.png" alt="Up"></a><a accesskey="h" href="../../../index.html"><img src="../../../../../../../doc/src/images/home.png" alt="Home"></a><a accesskey="n" href="bibliog.html"><img src="../../../../../../../doc/src/images/next.png" alt="Next"></a> 24</div> 25<div class="section"> 26<div class="titlepage"><div><div><h4 class="title"> 27<a name="sort.single_thread.spreadsort.acks"></a><a class="link" href="acks.html" title="Acknowledgements">Acknowledgements</a> 28</h4></div></div></div> 29<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "> 30<li class="listitem"> 31 The author would like to thank his wife Mary for her patience and support 32 during the long process of converting this from a piece of C code to 33 a template library. 34 </li> 35<li class="listitem"> 36 The author would also like to thank Phil Endecott and Frank Gennari 37 for the improvements they've suggested and for testing. Without them 38 this would have taken longer to develop or performed worse. 39 </li> 40<li class="listitem"> 41 <code class="computeroutput">float_mem_cast</code> was fixed to be safe and fast thanks to 42 Scott McMurray. That fix was critical for a high-performance cross-platform 43 <code class="literal"><code class="computeroutput"><a class="link" href="../../../boost/sort/spreadsort/float_so_idm45878545215024.html" title="Function template float_sort">float_sort</a></code></code>. 44 </li> 45<li class="listitem"> 46 Thanks also for multiple helpful suggestions provided by Steven Watanabe, 47 Edouard Alligand, and others. 48 </li> 49<li class="listitem"> 50 Initial documentation was refactored to use Quickbook by Paul A. Bristow. 51 </li> 52</ul></div> 53</div> 54<table xmlns:rev="http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~gregod/boost/tools/doc/revision" width="100%"><tr> 55<td align="left"></td> 56<td align="right"><div class="copyright-footer">Copyright © 2014-2017 Steven 57 Ross, Francisco Tapia, Orson Peters<p> 58 Distributed under the <a href="http://boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt" target="_top">Boost 59 Software License, Version 1.0</a>. 60 </p> 61</div></td> 62</tr></table> 63<hr> 64<div class="spirit-nav"> 65<a accesskey="p" href="faq.html"><img src="../../../../../../../doc/src/images/prev.png" alt="Prev"></a><a accesskey="u" href="../spreadsort.html"><img src="../../../../../../../doc/src/images/up.png" alt="Up"></a><a accesskey="h" href="../../../index.html"><img src="../../../../../../../doc/src/images/home.png" alt="Home"></a><a accesskey="n" href="bibliog.html"><img src="../../../../../../../doc/src/images/next.png" alt="Next"></a> 66</div> 67</body> 68</html> 69