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Article #951Re: qsort
From: Henry Spencer
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1989 05:56
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1989 05:56
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In article <861@maytag.waterloo.edu> lhf@aries5 (Luiz H de Figueiredo) writes: >In a recent thread about sorting strings, someone suggested that qsort was >not the way to go because quicksort is not very good for nearly ordered files. > Does qsort have to implement quicksort? ... >What does the standard say about this? The standard just says that qsort is a sort algorithm. It can be anything from bubblesort to an adaptive partitioning sort and still conform. -- A bit of tolerance is worth a | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology megabyte of flaming. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.std.c Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: qsort Message-ID: <1989Nov19.055631.1348@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <861@maytag.waterloo.edu> Date: Sun, 19 Nov 89 05:56:31 GMT