Re: qsort again (was Re: [PERFORM] Strange Create Index

From: "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Markus Schaber <schabi(at)logix-tt(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: qsort again (was Re: [PERFORM] Strange Create Index
Date: 2006-02-16 14:19:44
Message-ID: 36e682920602160619n1f3752e4mb7a83c9dc9b045cf@mail.gmail.com
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Last night I implemented a non-recursive introsort in C... let me test it a
bit more and then I'll post it here for everyone else to try out.

On 2/16/06, Markus Schaber <schabi(at)logix-tt(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Hi, Ron,
>
> Ron wrote:
>
> > ...and of course if you know enough about the data to be sorted so as to
> > constrain it appropriately, one should use a non comparison based O(N)
> > sorting algorithm rather than any of the general comparison based
> > O(NlgN) methods.
>
> Sounds interesting, could you give us some pointers (names, URLs,
> papers) to such algorithms?
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Markus
>
>
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