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On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 09:58:28AM -0400, John P. Linderman wrote: > If you don't mind, I'd prefer to leave off that final reference to my > timsort analysis. You can't possibly get "more details of the > implementation" than pp_sort.c itself, and, particularly if I do something > about making instability an option, you might get directed to something out > of date. Which might also be true if Tim changes timsort. demerphq is > nudging me to create a wikipedia page about perl's sort. *If* I do that, > it would make a better reference, since it could be kept up to date with > current implementations of both. I just culled both lines. If a wikipedia page appears, we can update pp_sort.c to point to it. [And then the wikipedia talk folks can debate whether it's notable, and if they so choose create a 404 error. Until we update the link to point to their history :-)] Nicholas ClarkThread Previous | Thread Next