Change the internal implementation of sort() to be mergesort
authorJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
Wed, 30 Aug 2000 22:14:13 +0000 (22:14 +0000)
committerJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
Wed, 30 Aug 2000 22:14:13 +0000 (22:14 +0000)
commitbe7ddd5d2d1ac50e54898aa4f400140ded3a1297
tree1ad3424e46e95036812b16aad2860a5bbd4d6056
parent61e6f928c8400b55ed250dc96a4024358ab069ff
Change the internal implementation of sort() to be mergesort
instead of quicksort, from John Linderman <jpl@research.att.com>.
Gives us better worst case, better average case, and stability.
What's there not to like?  (Small fixes for threaded builds
were required).

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