From: John Heffner <redacted>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:58:12 -0400

I don't believe this was the case.  NCR is substantially different, and 
came out of work at Texas A&M.  The original (only) implementation was 
in Linux IIRC.  Its goal was to do better.  Their papers say it does. 
It might be worth looking at.

In my own experience with reordering, Alexey's code had some 
hard-to-track-down bugs (look at all the work Ilpo's been doing), and 
the relative simplicity of NCR may be one of the reasons it does well in 
tests.

Interesting, thanks for the info John.