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Re: Did the sort do anything?

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From Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid>
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Subject Re: Did the sort do anything?
Date Mon, 07 Nov 2011 21:03:50 -0500
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On 11/7/2011 9:30 AM, Joshua Cranmer wrote:
> On 11/7/2011 6:11 AM, Eric Sosman wrote:
>> Post-sort order check won't do: The sort might have interchanged
>> two different objects with equal keys.
>
> If we're talking about Java's built-in sort methods, they are stable.

     Um. Er. Yes, good point.  (Well, the Arrays.sort() methods for
primitives have no stability guarantees -- but with primitives you
couldn't tell anyhow, so ...)

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Eric Sosman
esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid

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Did the sort do anything? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-07 01:27 -0800
  Re: Did the sort do anything? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-07 02:20 -0800
    Re: Did the sort do anything? Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-11-07 11:21 +0000
  Re: Did the sort do anything? Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-11-07 10:49 +0000
    Re: Did the sort do anything? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-07 02:58 -0800
  Re: Did the sort do anything? Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-11-07 07:11 -0500
    Re: Did the sort do anything? Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2011-11-07 08:30 -0600
      Re: Did the sort do anything? Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-11-07 21:03 -0500
  Re: Did the sort do anything? markspace <-@.> - 2011-11-07 07:48 -0800
  Re: Did the sort do anything? dagon@dagon.net (Dagon) - 2011-11-07 12:50 -0800
    Re: Did the sort do anything? Cindy <c.thurston@frell.okb.uwa.edu> - 2011-11-07 22:02 -0500
      Re: Did the sort do anything? Cindy <c.thurston@frell.okb.uwa.edu> - 2011-11-07 22:22 -0500
  Re: Did the sort do anything? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-07 17:42 -0500

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