Who exactly are expecting a stable qsort?
Who exactly are expecting a stable qsort?
Posted Feb 7, 2024 21:00 UTC (Wed) by tialaramex (subscriber, #21167)In reply to: Who exactly are expecting a stable qsort? by error27
Parent article: GNU C Library version 2.39
Do your foo and bar files often have differences so subtle that while you care about them sort thinks they're equivalent?
In software it's not uncommon that we're sorting things whose identity matters, but I don't see that in sorting lines of text - one identical line of text is the same as another.
Posted Feb 12, 2024 17:34 UTC (Mon)
by draco (subscriber, #1792)
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Who exactly are expecting a stable qsort?
Case insensitive sort would be the most common example