Re: qsort() standard functions

From	Real Troll <Real.Troll@Trolls.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	Re: qsort() standard functions
Date	2019-04-25 23:27 +0100
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On 25/04/2019 08:39, fir wrote:
> lol bow-bow-bow-bow-bow-bow-bow-wow
>
> that 'numarical recipes' c verion compared is badly written becouse it has test on array overflow which is not needed and may be costly
>
> if someone uses that code and uses it to say that c is sometimes slower than c++
> its mightly stupid
>
> like overally taking one code in c compared to another code in c++ and saying that c++ is faster (besides as it uses new its not fully c)
>
> this article is somewhat ok (esp it has non stack qsort what was recently talked about) but makes rather bulshit conclusions
>
You missed the point of those examples and the article.  The guy wrote 
that piece in 2000 when he didn't have sophisticated compilers and 
algorithms but he just wanted people to stop criticising standard 
libraries in the compilers available at the time.  Knuth was the god in 
those days also of Stanford. <https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/>

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qsort() standard functions rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com - 2019-04-24 09:08 -0700
  Re: qsort() standard functions gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2019-04-24 16:12 +0000
    Re: qsort() standard functions rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com - 2019-04-24 09:18 -0700
      Re: qsort() standard functions Chad <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2019-05-02 12:02 -0700
    Re: qsort() standard functions Real Troll <real.troll@trolls.com> - 2019-04-24 22:30 -0400
      Re: qsort() standard functions "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2019-04-24 19:32 -0700
        Re: qsort() standard functions Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2019-04-25 10:19 +0000
          Re: qsort() standard functions rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com - 2019-04-25 04:09 -0700
            Re: qsort() standard functions Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2019-04-25 08:13 -0400
              Re: qsort() standard functions fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2019-04-25 06:39 -0700
              Re: qsort() standard functions already5chosen@yahoo.com - 2019-04-25 07:23 -0700
      Re: qsort() standard functions fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2019-04-25 00:39 -0700
        Re: qsort() standard functions Real Troll <Real.Troll@Trolls.com> - 2019-04-25 23:27 +0100
  Re: qsort() standard functions John Bode <jfbode1029@gmail.com> - 2019-04-24 09:34 -0700
    Re: qsort() standard functions "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2019-04-24 09:47 -0700
    Re: qsort() standard functions John Bode <jfbode1029@gmail.com> - 2019-04-24 09:47 -0700
      Re: qsort() standard functions "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2019-04-24 12:54 -0400
        Re: qsort() standard functions John Bode <jfbode1029@gmail.com> - 2019-04-24 11:33 -0700
          Re: qsort() standard functions "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2019-04-24 14:41 -0400
            Re: qsort() standard functions John Bode <jfbode1029@gmail.com> - 2019-04-24 11:52 -0700
              Re: qsort() standard functions gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2019-04-24 19:12 +0000
              Re: qsort() standard functions "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2019-04-24 16:05 -0400
                Re: qsort() standard functions queequeg@trust.no1 (Queequeg) - 2019-04-24 20:39 +0000
            Re: qsort() standard functions James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2019-04-24 16:33 -0700
      Re: qsort() standard functions gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2019-04-24 19:18 +0000
        Re: qsort() standard functions Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-04-24 20:28 +0100
          Re: qsort() standard functions gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2019-04-24 21:27 +0000
        Re: qsort() standard functions fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2019-04-24 12:31 -0700
        Re: qsort() standard functions John Bode <jfbode1029@gmail.com> - 2019-04-24 13:02 -0700
          Re: qsort() standard functions fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2019-04-24 13:41 -0700
            Re: qsort() standard functions fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2019-04-24 14:00 -0700
              Re: qsort() standard functions Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.com> - 2019-04-25 00:22 +0300
                Re: qsort() standard functions fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2019-04-24 15:04 -0700
                Re: qsort() standard functions fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2019-04-24 15:20 -0700
                Re: qsort() standard functions fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2019-04-24 15:40 -0700
                Re: qsort() standard functions fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2019-04-24 15:57 -0700
                Re: qsort() standard functions fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2019-04-24 16:06 -0700
                Re: qsort() standard functions Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.com> - 2019-04-25 23:49 +0300
                Re: qsort() standard functions Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-04-25 22:45 +0100
                Re: qsort() standard functions Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-04-25 23:00 +0100
                Re: qsort() standard functions Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-04-25 23:24 +0100
                Re: qsort() standard functions Real Troll <Real.Troll@Trolls.com> - 2019-04-25 23:20 +0100
                Re: qsort() standard functions Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@g{oogle}mail.com> - 2019-04-26 13:06 +0300
                Re: qsort() standard functions Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-04-26 13:38 +0100
                Re: qsort() standard functions Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@g{oogle}mail.com> - 2019-04-26 16:43 +0300
                Re: qsort() standard functions Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-04-26 17:46 +0100
                Re: qsort() standard functions Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.com> - 2019-04-27 14:55 +0300
                Re: qsort() standard functions Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-04-27 14:59 +0100
                Re: qsort() standard functions Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2019-04-27 11:41 -0500
                Re: qsort() standard functions Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2019-05-02 09:46 -0700
                Re: qsort() standard functions Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.com> - 2019-05-02 20:35 +0300
                Re: qsort() standard functions fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2019-05-02 15:35 -0700
                Re: qsort() standard functions fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2019-05-05 04:39 -0700
                Re: qsort() standard functions Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2019-05-04 07:35 -0700
                Re: qsort() standard functions Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.com> - 2019-05-05 00:01 +0300
                Re: qsort() standard functions Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.com> - 2019-05-02 15:11 +0300
                Re: qsort() standard functions Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-05-02 16:36 +0100
                Re: qsort() standard functions Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.com> - 2019-04-27 14:47 +0300
                Re: qsort() standard functions Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2019-04-27 08:30 -0500
                Re: qsort() standard functions Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.com> - 2019-05-02 14:52 +0300
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                Re: qsort() standard functions Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.com> - 2019-05-05 22:57 +0300
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                Re: qsort() standard functions fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2019-04-26 14:05 -0700
                Re: qsort() standard functions Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.com> - 2019-04-27 14:59 +0300
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                Re: qsort() standard functions fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2019-04-27 06:32 -0700
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