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> But “The Art of Computer Programming” is an impressive book in its own right: it is still unfinished, currently spanning 3.5 volumes (yes, the fourth is unfinished, but the first chapters are released).

I wish he would update his volume on Searching and Sorting with modern search engine techniques.



I'm curious on the updates you anticipate. Many of the items in the book are approachable without having to go too far into specific domains.


The most important chapter would be on how to benchmark a search engine.

And I would expect coverage of NLP techniques.

Of course, a search engine makes use of distributed computing techniques, so I'd also expect a volume on that topic :)


My gut would be that his benchmark would be highly focused on number of memory access. And heavily empirical. Agreed that it would be neat to see.




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