What's would be truly awesome at the moment is highly efficient version(s) of sort(s) customized for small ranges. And IRC that's what Philippe's sorting networks were good at.
Wasn't that what I was saying? =) It seems like an ideal application of D's strengths to be easily able to write something like sort!"timsort" or sort!"mergesort" (or whatever formatting) in addition to intelligent analysis of the number of items and select a sorting network if that would be favourable.
