Re: [FWP] Wanted - Have = Need

[John Porter <jdporter@min.net>]

Philip Newton wrote:
> 
> I believe Perl used to use the native C library's qsort routine, but now has
> its own routine due to the poor behaviour of many "native" qsort
> implementation on pathological comparison functions (that don't return the
> same result given the same inputs).

I don't think that's the reason.  After all, perl's sort is also
not well-behaved under such conditions.  In fact, it's one
notorious way to get perl to crash!  No, it was mainly about
speed, as the comments say.

-- 
John Porter


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