On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 22:41, Marion McCoskey <mck...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am a retired programmer, and I haven't had a lot of trouble with the > couple of thousand lines of Perl I have written, except remembering to > always put in curly braces. But I don't know anything about the Perl > community. > > While looking at the documentation for the sort function, I noticed it > complaining about the shortcomings of the quick sort. I share that > feeling and I have developed a single-buffered count sort that is > faster than the quick sort and a lot more stable. > > It would have to be integrated into Perl differently than the quick > sort, so it would probably be best to have both options. > > You can get details here: > > http://www.mcky.net > > I would be happy to have that algorithm incorporated into Perl, but I > don't know who talk to. > > Any help would be appreciated. snip
Well, I would suggest taking this to the Perl Porters list*, this is a list for people who are starting to learn Perl. You could also write a module implementing you algorithm either in pure Perl or in XS** (the interface between ISO C and Perl) and upload it to CPAN***. * http://lists.cpan.org/showlist.cgi?name=perl5-porters ** http://perldoc.perl.org/perlxs.html *** www.cpan.org -- Chas. Owens wonkden.net The most important skill a programmer can have is the ability to read. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
