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Release 0-5-20091121

Student Name:	Glen Lenker
Mentor Name:	padraig brady
Title:	Improve "sort" on multi-core systems
Abstract:	The primary focus of this proposal is to improve the performance of sort on multi-core machines. This is an extension of my previous work for GNU coreutils in which I introduced threads to the internal sort algorithm. While the primary focus is performance on multi-core machines, I also intend to visit and analyze techniques of which could increase performance without the use of parallelism.