From: "Alexander P. Javier" Date: 2005-03-17T15:33:40+09:00 Subject: Re: Stable sort? unsubscribe --------------------- [Alexander P. Javier] [alyx@foo.ncc.gov.ph] [alxjvr@gmail.com] [alyxj5@hotmail.com] [alyxj@yahoo.com] --------------------- Message checked by: - Avast! Professional 4.6 [4.6.623/0511-0] - Sygate Personal Firewall Pro 5.5.271 [4.0.2/1.0.1058] --------------------- > -----Original Message----- > From: gabriele renzi [mailto:surrender_it@remove-yahoo.it] > Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 02.10 pm > To: ruby-talk ML > Subject: Re: Stable sort? > > Hal Fulton ha scritto: > > > Given that, what is a good stable sort algorithm? > Would it be too > > inefficient to implement in Ruby or no? > > AFAIK, python's sort is based on a alghoritm named > something like "stable natural mergesort" wich is said > to be quite impressive, but I know nothing about it. I > guess implementing it in pure ruby would have bad > performance, anyway. >