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On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 14:48, Dave Mitchell wrote:
> 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.
There's some reverse-handling code in pp_sort which I took
to be responding to a hint that
reverse sort ...
has been encountered:
if (PL_op->op_private & OPpSORT_REVERSE) {
SV **p = sorting_av ? AvARRAY(av) : ORIGMARK+1;
SV **q = p+max-1;
while (p < q) {
SV *tmp = *p;
*p++ = *q;
*q-- = tmp;
}
}
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