Weird profiling behaviour

Simon Marlow simonmar@microsoft.com
Wed, 26 Jun 2002 14:35:59 +0100


> >> The default definition of sortBy uses insertion sort
>=20
> > I have vague recollection of the wisdom of this choice being
> > questioned
>=20
> And now I think I'm about question it as well...

5.02 uses quicksort, but 5.04 will use mergesort instead which has much =
more predictable performance behaviour.

Cheers,
	Simon=20