On 2015-03-15, Todd C. Miller <todd.mil...@courtesan.com> wrote: > On Sat, 14 Mar 2015 12:29:21 -0000, Stuart Henderson wrote: > >> I think the consensus was to try and replace it with another version but >> not sure what happened. > > I have a port of the FreeBSD sort but it is slower than our current > sort (and slower than GNU sort).
Personally I think that is a reasonable trade-off for more actively developed code, and when I tried it on some difficult files it coped better than our current sort (not that this small sample means much in terms of "ability to handle every difficult file").
