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Re:On Dijkstra's Algorithm by tristramg on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @07:21AM (#9413290)
Dijkstra’s algorithm is well known in computer science, but as other comments say it, Google uses a much more advanced algorithm. Furthermore the complexity O(n×log(n)) we know dates from the 80’s. Many years after Dijktra’s original article.

I wrote a year ago a small blog post where I tried to show the chronology: http://blog.tristramg.eu/short-history-of-routes-computation...

Re:On Dijkstra's Algorithm by bunderbunder on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @01:11PM (#9415482)
Paraphrasing an observation that was shared with me last week, "Dijkstra was an asshole. All his stuff runs in exponential time."
Re:On Dijkstra's Algorithm by farresito on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @08:04AM (#9413428)
Thank you for your article. Pretty interesting. Will finish reading it when I get home.