From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] Use introsort for qsort
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2021 17:39:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <07aade22-d9a9-e4a0-5062-c367e28cbf50@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f0c64f3b-ad12-e64c-be85-1dd0a9124f83@linaro.org>
On 9/8/21 4:56 AM, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
> it is confusing and leads to bad assumption from users, as ruby
> shows.
Again, Ruby is not a good example of why a change is needed, as Ruby
works fine in practice.
>>>>> Would you like to work together to come up with a new API that addresses both of our concerns?
>>> I am not against your suggestion
>>
>> That's a good way forward, then. Do you have an API in mind? If not, I can propose one.
>
> Sure, but this is orthogonal to the change I am proposing here.
It's not orthogonal, because if we provide a better API that will be a
solution to this (so far only-theoretical) problem. Although a better
API should also address other problems, that doesn't mean it's
orthogonal to this one.
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Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-03 17:11 [PATCH v3 0/7] Use introsort for qsort Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2021-09-03 17:11 ` [PATCH v3 1/7] benchtests: Add bench-qsort Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2021-09-04 9:09 ` Alexander Monakov via Libc-alpha
2021-09-06 18:30 ` Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2021-10-13 3:19 ` Noah Goldstein via Libc-alpha
2021-10-15 12:52 ` Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2021-10-15 16:39 ` Noah Goldstein via Libc-alpha
2021-10-15 17:19 ` Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2021-09-03 17:11 ` [PATCH v3 2/7] support: Fix getopt_long with CMDLINE_OPTIONS Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2021-09-03 17:11 ` [PATCH v3 3/7] stdlib: Optimization qsort{_r} swap implementation (BZ #19305) Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2021-10-13 3:29 ` Noah Goldstein via Libc-alpha
2021-10-13 3:39 ` Noah Goldstein via Libc-alpha
2021-10-15 13:29 ` Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2021-10-15 17:17 ` Noah Goldstein via Libc-alpha
2021-10-15 17:34 ` Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2021-10-15 17:45 ` Noah Goldstein via Libc-alpha
2021-10-15 17:56 ` Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2021-10-15 13:12 ` Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2021-10-15 16:45 ` Noah Goldstein via Libc-alpha
2021-10-15 17:21 ` Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2021-09-03 17:11 ` [PATCH v3 4/7] stdlib: Move insertion sort out qsort Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2021-09-06 20:35 ` Fangrui Song via Libc-alpha
2021-09-06 20:48 ` Fangrui Song via Libc-alpha
2021-09-03 17:11 ` [PATCH v3 5/7] stdlib: qsort: Move some macros to inline function Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2021-09-03 17:11 ` [PATCH v3 6/7] stdlib: Implement introsort with qsort Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2021-09-04 9:17 ` Alexander Monakov via Libc-alpha
2021-09-06 18:43 ` Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2021-09-06 20:23 ` Fangrui Song via Libc-alpha
2021-10-13 3:53 ` Noah Goldstein via Libc-alpha
2021-09-03 17:11 ` [PATCH v3 7/7] stdlib: Remove use of mergesort on qsort (BZ #21719) Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2021-09-03 19:18 ` [PATCH v3 0/7] Use introsort for qsort Paul Eggert
2021-09-06 14:13 ` Carlos O'Donell via Libc-alpha
2021-09-06 17:03 ` Zack Weinberg via Libc-alpha
2021-09-06 18:19 ` Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2021-09-07 0:14 ` Paul Eggert
2021-09-07 14:32 ` Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2021-09-07 17:39 ` Paul Eggert
2021-09-07 18:07 ` Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2021-09-07 19:28 ` Paul Eggert
2021-09-08 11:56 ` Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2021-09-09 0:39 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
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