Hi,

On Sun, 30 Dec 2007, Brian Downing wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 05:00:35PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > I had the impression that Brian found a faster implementation, which 
> > could not be included for license reasons...
> > 
> > But for the time being, this is better than nothing, I guess.
> 
> It wasn't me.  It was "Mike Ralphson" in the "Some git performance 
> measurements" thread on the vger list.
> 
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/67424
> 
> However, I came to the conclusion that he was actually comparing against 
> glibc's quicksort implementation; his comment about being tuned for "Sun 
> 4/260" matches a comment in glibc's quicksort implementation, not the 
> mergesort that I used as a base.  Later, in:
> 
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/67443
> 
> He said the mergesort in mingw was faster.

Ah, thanks!  So this is settled, then.

Ciao,
Dscho

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