Re: [Fwd: Re: [FWP] sorting text in human-order]

[Jonathan Scott Duff]

On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 11:47:59PM -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> The sorting algorithm? Before 5.005 (I think...my memory is going)
> vendors' quicksort, after that Tom Horsley's excellent ultratuned
> quicksort (since vendors' quicksorts were (a) buggy (c) slow),
> in 5.7 mergesort by John Lindermann was introduced.

Could someone give me a pointer to the whys and wherefors of the
change from quicksort to mergesort?

thanks,

-Scott
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