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More Programming Pearls is the follow‑up to Bentley’s celebrated first volume, gathering the author’s influential columns from the Communications of the ACM. The book presents a range of practical insights and heuristic techniques for efficient algorithm design, problem solving and high‑performance computing on electronic digital computers.
First publish date: 1988
Genre: Technology & Computing/Programming
Authors: Jon Louis Bentley
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