Comment #39 on issue 90 by [email protected]: V8 doesn't stable sort
https://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=90
well... i am normally not the guy to be polemic and re-raise old issues,
but seriously, this is the quintessence i read out of this thread and some
mails so-far, and it's sort of weird and unexpected reading this here and
not at the ie6-team-forums of 199x:
"So the standard says there's no need for a stable sort and a qsort is a
little faster. But there are some people complaining. Well, ok. Instead of
being the ones having the influence to tell the standardizers that their
standard lacks reality-compliance (at least acknowledged by nearly all
other browsers, definitely the major ones in actual versions), lets do it
faster instead of reliable and violate the principle of least surprise,
cause V8 shall not be best, but the fastest engine ever! At least for a
count over 10, because being consistent is bad, mhkay...? Let's do our own
thing instead of being web-compliant with nearly every other browser out
there. lets be these guys! And if you little communityguy really need such
weird thing as a stable sorting algorithm, write it yourself, man, you are
a bad programmer if you can't write a hack, didn't you work with IE7? Man,
THAT was a mess!"
As mentioned, I expected this behaviour from Microsofts ie-team in 199x or
so, but definitely not from chrome-v8-devs in 2015. Sorry for the
inconvenience. It was just my picture of how the "good" devs and architects
work being ruined.
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