On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Ivar Nesje <[email protected]> wrote:
> We look forward to see posted julia code. Pull Requests is a great way to > show your skills, whether they are accepted or not. Most of our sorting > algorithms have been moved to > SortingAlgorithms.jl<https://github.com/JuliaLang/SortingAlgorithms.jl>, > so I would expect that it would be hard get a new algorithm accepted into > base. > Definitely submit new sorting algorithms to the SortingAlgorithms package rather than base/sort.jl. We only want the minimal number of sorting algorithms in base: quick sort, which is unstable but fast and in-place, merge sort, which is stable and almost as fast but not in-place, and insertion sort, which is stable and and in-place and fast for small arrays, but slow for anything large, but makes and excellent base case for other algorithms. It should be pretty obvious how to add a new sorting algorithm, but feel free to ask questions if you need to.
