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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. |