On 8 September 2017 at 18:06, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie> wrote:
> * It's still faster with int4/int8 comparisons on modern hardware, and
> I think that most ordered inputs will be of those types in practice.
This may be a bit "how long is a piece of string" but how do those two
compare with string sorting in an interesting encoding/locale -- say
/usr/share/dict/polish in pl_PL for example. It's certainly true that
people do sort text as well as numbers. Also, people often sort on
keys of more than one column....
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greg