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From Fabien COELHO
Subject Re: A worst case for qsort
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In response to A worst case for qsort  (Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com>)
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Hello John,

> [...]
> In fact, the mentioned paper says this about the subject "Moreover, if 
> worst-case performance is important, Quicksort is the wrong algorithm."

I fully agree with this conclusion.

-- 
Fabien

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