Regarding implementing a stable sort for Phobos

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Tue Mar 13 07:33:27 PDT 2012


On 3/13/12 4:02 AM, Xinok wrote:
> On Tuesday, 13 March 2012 at 06:53:30 UTC, Chad J wrote:
>> Hey, I'd love to see more sorting algorithms in phobos. Being stuck
>> with one seems kind of... wrong.
>
> Things like this are better left to 3rd party libs. Phobos already has
> two, a stable and unstable sort, which fulfill 99% of cases.

I think we need a good sort for ranges of ranges (e.g. array of string). 
Right now sort() does pretty badly on arrays of strings with large 
common prefixes.

Andrei



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