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From:
Dave Mitchell
Date:
June 30, 2004 12:41
Subject:
Re: optimizing Short circuiting sort method based on [M]
Message ID:
20040630194831.GA1895@iabyn.com
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 07:58:40PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> Does the peephole optimiser currently have any way to optimise
> 
>   @a = reverse sort @b
> 
> into
> 
>   @a = sort {$b cmp $a} $b;
> 
> but without the explicit sort comparison?

Shouldn't be too difficult.

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