Sorting is a hobby-horse of mine, so I cannot resist the temptation to
elaborate on the subject. I was motivated to write this rather long
reply by Carsten Kehler Holst saying `As far as I can see the
difference between merge sort and heap sort as described by Jon is
almost non existing'. Carsten
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Ralf Hinze wrote:
> Practitioners are probably surprised to learn that `pairingSort' is the
> algorithm of choice for sorting. Any objections to this recommendation?
> I was surprised to see that it performs so well: sorting
