Re: Simple Sort - the smallest sorting routine?

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Date	2013-07-01 04:34 -0700
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Subject	Re: Simple Sort - the smallest sorting routine?
From	Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com>

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On Monday, 1 July 2013 00:53:23 UTC+1, hughag...@yahoo.com  wrote:
> On Sunday, June 30, 2013 1:48:22 PM UTC-7, Alex McDonald wrote:
> 
> > Here's how to use the provided SORT to sort a set of variable length
> 
> > strings (to answer Hugh and WJ's assertions that it can't). 
> 
> > 
> 
> > Note the use of indirection; the cell to be sorted is a pointer.
> 
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> I never asserted that it is impossible to sort an array of pointers to records, rather than an array of records. You are being dishonest --- putting words in my mouth that I never said --- building a straw man that you can knock down.
> 
> 

You suggested it was poor quality code that could only sort integers, not me. 

> 
> If your array is required to be of cells, then it can either be integers or pointers to records. It is more robust though, to allow the user to specify the size of the elements, so that it is possible to have an array of records.
> 

Robust? 

> 
> 
> As amazing as it may seem, I do actually know what pointers are --- and I would expect that anybody using the novice package would also know what pointers are --- it is a package for novices, not idiots.
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> 
> An example is BIG-SORT in LIST.4TH --- it converts a list into an array of pointers to the nodes, calls SORT to sort the array (the comparer function has to work with pointers), and then converts the array back into a list again. I also have code to sort a list as a list, but it is inefficient with large lists because it uses an insertion sort --- hence BIG-SORT which has some overhead in the conversion, but should yet be faster when there is a lot of data.

Then you ought to use a merge sort. Don't use a hammer for screws.

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Simple Sort - the smallest sorting routine? The Beez <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2013-06-25 13:12 -0700
  Re: Simple Sort - the smallest sorting routine? Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-06-25 23:48 -0700
    Re: Simple Sort - the smallest sorting routine? The Beez <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2013-06-26 09:11 -0700
  Re: Simple Sort - the smallest sorting routine? m.a.m.hendrix@tue.nl - 2013-06-26 02:03 -0700
  Re: Simple Sort - the smallest sorting routine? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-06-26 11:25 -0500
    Re: Simple Sort - the smallest sorting routine? the_gavino_himself <visphatesjava@gmail.com> - 2013-06-26 12:36 -0700
      Re: Simple Sort - the smallest sorting routine? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2013-06-26 09:49 -1000
    Re: Simple Sort - the smallest sorting routine? "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> - 2013-06-26 20:24 +0000
  Re: Simple Sort - the smallest sorting routine? "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> - 2013-06-26 20:23 +0000
    Re: Simple Sort - the smallest sorting routine? Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2013-06-26 13:35 -0700
      Re: Simple Sort - the smallest sorting routine? hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2013-06-26 16:37 -0700
        Re: Simple Sort - the smallest sorting routine? The Beez <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2013-06-27 01:31 -0700
          Re: Simple Sort - the smallest sorting routine? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-06-27 04:04 -0500
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