[m-dev.] For review: change array__sort/1 to use samsort

Fergus Henderson fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU
Tue Feb 13 03:39:58 AEDT 2001


On 12-Feb-2001, Ralph Becket <rbeck at microsoft.com> wrote:
> library/array.m:
> 	Removed mergesort in favour of samsort which has much better
> 	performance on mostly sorted data and is within a hair as
> 	good on random data.

That looks good, provided it works... do we have any test
cases for array__sort in the test suite?

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