On 06.01.2015, at 05:42, Pierre Joye <pierre....@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am not sure about that. Introducing a not easy to catch BC break for
> 0.1% gain on function (or even for the whole app) is not very
> appealing.
> 
> However, there is nothing in the documentation actually describing how
> it works and there are clear warnings about the unpredictable results.
> That means we won't actually break it,per definition. I only wonder if
> it is worth the effort for such little gain (yes, the ocean is made of
> drops ;).

The clear benefit I see is that it turns it into a stable sort, although we 
could of course always break that again in the future unless we explicitly 
specify/guarantee it to be stable from now on (without any other guarantees 
about the algorithm).



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