which of these 2 quicksorts is faster?

process circularfunc at gmail.com
Wed Sep 10 06:52:24 EDT 2008


On Sep 10, 12:29 pm, Fredrik Lundh <fred... at pythonware.com> wrote:
> process wrote:
> > qsort can handle bigger lists it seems, making less recursive calls
> > before finishing(quicksort blows the stack when sorting
> > range(100,-1000,-1).
> > qsort does more work though right? is there a way to speed up that?
>
> > is the built-in sort not defined recursively?
>
> what makes you think you can write a better sort than the built-in
> algorithm by typing in some toy quick-sort implementations from a
> "sorting for dummies" article?
>
> </F>

Where did I write that I was trying to do that? I am merely trying to
learn.

Get some social skills dude.



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