Re: Efficiently sorting array by non-alpha strings

Highly suspicious results. You didn't publish source, but I have a hunch your code has %h lexical to the main program. This will make the sort a linear pass (no sorting happens). Try again with our %h.

Abigail

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Re: Re: Efficiently sorting array by non-alpha strings by borisz (Canon) on Feb 20, 2004 at 17:11 UTC
You are right, very impressive abigail-ii found my bug without any source. Here the corrected results: `Rate knowmad browseruk borisz pirate abigail knowmad 22.1/s -- -49% -72% -80% -93% browseruk 43.0/s 94% -- -45% -62% -86% borisz 78.5/s 255% 83% -- -30% -74% pirate 112/s 407% 161% 43% -- -64% abigail 308/s 1291% 616% 292% 174% --` [download] Boris	[reply] [d/l]