On Sep 08, 2006, at 5:04 PM, Harrie Westphal wrote:


On Sep 8, 2006, at 3:17 PM, Charles Yeomans wrote:

For a Listbox, a stable sort is pretty clearly the way to go, and mergesort is as far as I know the best choice for a stable comparison-exchange sort.

I see the MERGE sort mentioned over and over again on the RB lists and I wonder why it is so preferred.

Merge sorts are very simple tim implement for sorting external data using temporary files _______________________________________________
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