in reply to Re: Faster than the speed of sound (was: When the Best Solution Isn't)
in thread When the Best Solution Isn't

Interesting. It's more verbose with the extra array, and the Schwartzian Transform is such a common idiom one should definitely know it, but I wonder if the author(s) had any particular motive to recommend the ST over this meme?

Makeshifts last the longest.

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Re3: Faster than the speed of sound
by blakem (Monsignor) on Sep 23, 2002 at 18:12 UTC
    Perhaps because the ST is named after the books co-author? ;-)

    Actually, that unnamed sorting method sits right between "sorting: the mundane way" and "sorting: the cool way". Guess they just liked the Orcish and ST better.

    -Blake

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