On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 04:31:42PM -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> (1) Quicksort has a weak point where it goes deep into the Quadratic Land:
> (nearly) already ordered data. No, that is not so far-fetched a case.
> Mergesort has no similar weakpoints: its performance is in fact
> c
Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> "sort heuristic"? "DWIM both numeric and string data"? There is
> no "heuristic". There is no "DWIM". Perl's sort() does by default
> string sort based on the byte values of the strings of its argument
> list. That's it. Period. Full stop.
Oh.
$ perl -le 'for
Marc Lehmann wrote:
>
> On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 05:31:29AM +, "David L. Nicol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
> > I do not know exactly what the perl5 default sort heuristic is, aside that
> > it tries to DWIM both numeric and string data.
>
> There is no heuristic, the default is simply $a cm
> "JSD" == Jonathan Scott Duff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JSD> On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 04:31:42PM -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
>> (1) Quicksort has a weak point where it goes deep into the Quadratic Land:
>> (nearly) already ordered data. No, that is not so far-fetched a case.
>>
