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Pointer Jumping Requires Concurrent Read

Venkatesh Srinivasan
Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik - AG 1
AG1 Mittagsseminar (others' work)
AG 1  
AG Audience
English

Date, Time and Location

Wednesday, 15 January 2003
13:30
45 Minutes
46.1 - MPII
024
Saarbrücken

Abstract

We present the lower bound of Noam Nisan and Ziv Bar-Yossef that

shows that there is a Boolean function on n variables that can
be computed in O(log log n) time in CREW PRAM but needs
$\sqrt(log n)$ time in the EREW PRAM. This result appeared
in STOC 1997.

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