@Tab Atkins Jr.,
The only question is how much slower/more expensiver stable sorting is than unstable sorting, and whether that cost is sufficient to outweigh the usefulness of a stable sort. My own experiment shows, that QuickSort (unstable) is ~20% (or more) faster on "random" array of integers (a good case for QuickSort). Probably, there are many Chrome users who sort large integer arrays, and so Chrome devs will never switch to a stable sort. (see comments at https://bugs.chromium.org/p/v8/issues/detail?id=90 ) _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list es-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
