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| author | Zefram <zefram@fysh.org> | 2017-11-17 05:28:21 +0000 |
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| committer | Zefram <zefram@fysh.org> | 2017-11-17 05:33:04 +0000 |
| commit | e2091bb6ea87111c32936c9170405a44995be338 (patch) | |
| tree | e9ab2b9a7f868e702981a6c725419504391d28c1 /pod/perlsec.pod | |
| parent | 73d689df0b635676359707f9eaa2ce012ada9fd7 (diff) | |
| download | perl-e2091bb6ea87111c32936c9170405a44995be338.tar.gz | |
rip out quicksort and sort algorithm control
[perl #119635]
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| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlsec.pod | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlsec.pod b/pod/perlsec.pod index 3635ec3e4d..ab126f753e 100644 --- a/pod/perlsec.pod +++ b/pod/perlsec.pod @@ -574,7 +574,7 @@ Perl running out of memory. =item * Sorting - the quicksort algorithm used in Perls before 5.8.0 to -implement the sort() function is very easy to trick into misbehaving +implement the sort() function was very easy to trick into misbehaving so that it consumes a lot of time. Starting from Perl 5.8.0 a different sorting algorithm, mergesort, is used by default. Mergesort cannot misbehave on any input. |