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). -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php