I wrote a quick sort function in clojure, but it runs extremely slow. Sometimes, if the input collection grows lager, it may even overflow the stack?
Anything wrong with my code? (defn qsort [coll] (if (<= (count coll) 1) coll (let [pivot (last coll) head-half (filter #(< % pivot) (drop-last coll)) tail-half (filter #(>= % pivot) (drop-last coll))] (concat (qsort head-half) (vector pivot) (qsort tail-half))))) I also read the sort function in clojure.core, but it make confused. 01 (defn sort 02 "Returns a sorted sequence of the items in coll. If no comparator is 03 supplied, uses compare. comparator must 04 implement java.util.Comparator." 05 {:added "1.0" 06 :static true} 07 ([coll] 08 (sort compare coll)) 09 ([^java.util.Comparator comp coll] 10 (if (seq coll) 11 (let [a (to-array coll)] 12 (. java.util.Arrays (sort a comp)) 13 (seq a)) 14 ()))) The only palace where recursive happens is at line 12. It just swap the two input parameters! Could you please explain to me why this piece of code is runs? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en