From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-05-17T00:42:48+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:15287] Re: Pluggable sorting - How would you do it?

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:15274] Re: Pluggable sorting - How would you do it?"
    on 01/05/16, "Benjamin J. Tilly" <ben_tilly@operamail.com> writes:

|BTW I just tried what I think should work in Ruby 1.6.2 but
|it didn't seem to work.  I must be forgetting something
|obvious...?

As Guy Decoux stated in [ruby-talk:15275], string sort is highly
optimized.  This behavior was already pointed out by TOYOFUKU
Chikanobu.  He even submitted a patch to fix this, but it has not been
merged since it might affect performance.

							matz.