Re: [FWP] Wanted - Have = Need

[John Carter <john@netsys.co.za>]

On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, John Porter wrote:

> As a concrete example, perl's data structures are always
> managed in memory; while things like sort and merge have
> been written to utilize on-disk buffers when necessary.
> (Hmm... smells like an RFC...)

I would assume that perl uses glibc's qsort routine.

I don't know whether you have ever looked at the source for that thing but
it is insanely cunning. You would hack for a long time before you did
better than that.


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