On 07/11/2013 05:17 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Unstable sort should be faster than stable sort. If I remember correctly (1) 
> our
> TimSort is indeed slower than quicksort on random numbers, (2) there is a
> performance bug that makes our quicksort perform quadratically on data that's
> essentially sorted but has one unsorted element at the end. Is that the case?

That's _exactly_ the case here. :-\

Thanks for the clarification!

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