From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Change Emacs 'sort' API to use three-way comparison Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 09:45:01 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <5401FF8D.5070301@cs.ucla.edu> References: <83fvgfinea.fsf@gnu.org> <5400EE70.8050207@cs.ucla.edu> <87r3zyjbud.fsf@building.gnus.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1409417285 17725 80.91.229.3 (30 Aug 2014 16:48:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 16:48:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Dmitry Antipov , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 30 18:47:58 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XNlok-0001yU-6S for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Aug 2014 18:47:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47172 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XNloj-0000sm-Nk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Aug 2014 12:47:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44703) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XNloZ-0000sZ-R7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Aug 2014 12:47:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XNloQ-0004Bv-E1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Aug 2014 12:47:47 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:34562) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XNlm3-0003qr-Ag for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Aug 2014 12:45:11 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDFDCA60013; Sat, 30 Aug 2014 09:45:10 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id xbA1gg3GegqJ; Sat, 30 Aug 2014 09:45:02 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (pool-71-177-17-123.lsanca.dsl-w.verizon.net [71.177.17.123]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 178AAA60002; Sat, 30 Aug 2014 09:45:02 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.0 In-Reply-To: <87r3zyjbud.fsf@building.gnus.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.62 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:173909 Archived-At: Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote: > Why has somebody introduced a new sort that's slower than the old > sort? In what sense is the new code slower? If you sort a list, the code is the same as before.