On 19 December 2012 11:56, Friedrich Röhrs <f.roe...@mis.uni-saarland.de> wrote: > I don't understand why 1.6e-8 is absolutly necessary for sorting and > comparison. PHP allows for the definition of custom sorting functions. If a > custom datatype is defined, a custom sorting/comparision function can be > defined too. Or am i missing some performance points?
I believe for performance reasons in many cases sorting needs to be performed already by the database and supported by an index. -- gregor _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
