Re(3): Slow at sorting?

Out of curiosity, why mergesort over (for example) heapsort?

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Re (tilly) 4: Slow at sorting? by tilly (Archbishop) on Nov 22, 2001 at 03:21 UTC
I think that Abigail gave the the best explanation of why heapsort would not be a good choice. For more, including an analysis of how to get bad numbers out of Perl 5.6, try the whole thread.	[reply]