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From: Xavier Leroy <Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr>
To: Markus Mottl <mottl@miss.wu-wien.ac.at>, OCAML <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: Sort.array easily degenerates
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 11:44:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19990309114442.07231@pauillac.inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199903060027.BAA03901@miss.wu-wien.ac.at>; from Markus Mottl on Sat, Mar 06, 1999 at 01:27:29AM +0100

> I have played around with the new functions and modules in the new
> OCAML-release. Besides other things I have tested the new function for
> sorting arrays (Sort.array).
> I am not sure where the problem in the implementation is, but the
> "qsort"-function, which is applied in "Sort.array" degenerates easily
> on pre-sorted and/or non-unique data.

The Sort.array implementation is Quicksort with insertion sort for
small partitions, as suggested in Sedgewick.  I should know better
than take some code out of an algorithms textbook and expect that it
will work well... 

At any rate, any one is welcome to send me a better implementation.

- Xavier Leroy




  reply	other threads:[~1999-03-09 12:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-03-06  0:27 Markus Mottl
1999-03-09 10:44 ` Xavier Leroy [this message]
1999-03-09 23:03   ` doligez
1999-03-10 13:58     ` Xavier Leroy
1999-03-10  0:28   ` Markus Mottl
     [not found] <Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr>
1999-03-05 10:41 ` Objective Caml 2.02 Xavier Leroy
1999-03-05 13:34   ` Camlp4 2.02 Daniel de Rauglaudre
1999-03-05 15:11   ` Objective Caml 2.02 Pierpaolo Bernardi
1999-03-05 19:59   ` doligez
1999-03-11  3:06   ` Upgrade from OCaml 2.01 to OCaml 2.02 made things _slower_! Alexey Nogin
1999-03-11  9:44     ` Xavier Leroy
1999-03-11 23:59       ` Alexey Nogin
1999-03-13 13:40         ` Anton Moscal
1999-03-24  4:20           ` Alexey Nogin
1999-03-26 11:49             ` Anton Moscal
1999-04-06  2:06       ` Alexey Nogin
1999-04-06  7:53         ` Xavier Leroy
1999-03-11 23:42   ` List.filter in Ocaml 2.02 Alexey Nogin
1999-03-12 10:10     ` Wolfram Kahl
1999-03-12 18:18       ` Alexey Nogin
1999-03-13  2:43       ` David Monniaux
1999-03-12 17:01     ` Jean-Francois Monin
1999-03-12 18:41       ` Alexey Nogin
     [not found]     ` <199903121011.LAA27611@lsun565.lannion.cnet.fr>
1999-03-12 18:37       ` Alexey Nogin
1999-03-15  9:06         ` Jean-Francois Monin

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