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          This quote is from Donald Knuth, ACM Computing Surveys, December 1974,
          pg 268.
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          The test code is available as part of the boost utility library (see algo_opt_examples.cpp),
          the code was compiled with gcc 2.95 with all optimisations turned on, tests
          were conducted on a 400MHz Pentium II machine running Microsoft Windows
          98.
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          John Maddock and H