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pcg
Date:
July 31, 2001 14:46
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Re: Sorting in-place
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20010731234628.J10116@cerebro.laendle
On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 09:04:46PM +0200, Abigail <abigail@foad.org> wrote:
> A reference *is* a scalar. And a scalar is blob of memory. With a

At least *two* seperate blobs of memory (except for SVt_NULL). And it's
not always possible to swap just pointers (although in the sort case it
is).

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