--- Sidharth Malhotra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While were on this, I'm taking an intro to Data Structures class and > were learning all about the different sorting methods ... Insertsort, > mergesort etc. What kind of sorting method perl's sort() use? > > Sid.
Sid, Perl's sort function is a quicksort algorithm. It used to rest on top of C's qsort function, but due to problems with differenent vendors offering slightly differing implementations (which sometimes caused Perl to coredump with a bad sort routine), Tom Horsley (http://home.att.net/~Tom.Horsley/) rewrote qsort and integrated it with Perl. Cheers, Curtis "Ovid" Poe ===== Senior Programmer Onsite! Technology (http://www.onsitetech.com/) "Ovid" on http://www.perlmonks.org/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Find the one for you at Yahoo! Personals http://personals.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
