Randomness in built-in .sort
Walter Bright
newshound1 at digitalmars.com
Tue Jan 6 11:09:45 PST 2009
Ary Borenszweig wrote:
> I think Bill speaks about a stable sort. You can have an unstable sort
> algorithm without having explicity a random invocation. Note that he's
> saying "leads to results that differ from run-to-run when there are
> elements with identical keys".
And I believe that the sort implementation is completely deterministic.
If Bill is getting different results from different runs, something else
is going on.
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