In article <515c400e$0$29966$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>,
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> I seem to recall that "sort relies only on < operator" is a language
> promise, but I can't seem to find it documented anywhere official.
That's pretty typical for sort implementations in all languages.
On Wed, 03 Apr 2013 07:52:42 -0400, Dave Angel wrote:
> I thought that the sort algorithm used a hash of all
> the items to be sorted, and only reverted to a raw comparison of the
> original values when the hash collided. Is that not the case? Or is
> the code you post here only used when the ha
