Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 14:26:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 14:26:09 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.224.33.161]:18590 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 14:25:42 -0400 Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 11:24:44 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Kai Henningsen Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] 2.5.8 sort kernel tables Message-ID: <20020418182444.GV21206@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Kai Henningsen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1589.1019123186@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au> <1589.1019123186@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au> <20020418135931.GU21206@holomorphy.com> <8N7App8mw-B@khms.westfalen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Description: brief message Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org wli@holomorphy.com (William Lee Irwin III) wrote on 18.04.02 in <20020418135931.GU21206@holomorphy.com>: >> It doesn't have to be an O(n lg(n)) method but could you use something >> besides bubblesort? Insertion sort, selection sort, etc. are just as >> easy and they don't have the horrific stigma of being "the worst sorting >> algorithm ever" etc. On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 08:16:00PM +0200, Kai Henningsen wrote: > Surely the worst (working) sort is randomsort? (Check if sorted. If not, > pick two entries at random, exchange, retry.) Perhaps I should have qualified it with "plausible" or something. The intent is clear regardless. Cheers, Bill - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/