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>> OTOH, current versions of Python (and Perl)
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> just curious, but all this use of (& Perl) mean that the Perl folks have
> implemented timsort ?
A remarkable case of independent harmonic convergence:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2002-July/026946.html
Come to think of it, I don't actually know whether a /released/ Perl
ever contained the development code I saw. Looks like it got added to
Perl 5.8:
http://perldoc.perl.org/sort.html
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