sort

Doug Gwyn gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL
Sat Aug 26 21:44:47 AEST 1989


In article <422 at siswat.UUCP> buck at siswat.UUCP (A. Lester Buck) writes:
>I would hope that this is what the VAX sortmerge is doing.  But this is
>definitely _not_ what Unix sort does, using qsort(3) for all sorts.

This claim was made before, and it was just as false then.  The UNIX
"sort" utility (all versions I've seen, definitely the SVR2 one) do
merge sorting via replacement selection.



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