Re: [Fwd: Re: [FWP] sorting text in human-order]

2001-01-01 Thread Jonathan Scott Duff
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 11:47:59PM -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > The sorting algorithm? Before 5.005 (I think...my memory is going) > vendors' quicksort, after that Tom Horsley's excellent ultratuned > quicksort (since vendors' quicksorts were (a) buggy (c) slow), > in 5.7 mergesort by John Li

Re: [Fwd: Re: [FWP] sorting text in human-order]

2001-01-01 Thread Jarkko Hietaniemi
On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 02:04:25PM -0600, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote: > On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 11:47:59PM -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > > The sorting algorithm? Before 5.005 (I think...my memory is going) > > vendors' quicksort, after that Tom Horsley's excellent ultratuned > > quicksort (sinc