Re: Sort B&V - see attachments



In the context of FastCode is a generic sort the best challenge?

ISTM that the most efficient sorts take advantage of the data type they
are sorting. For example radix sort works great of strings and other
data types that can be put in buckets. It is impossible to implement,
to the best of my knowledge, with a simple compare. I think that we
should have separate challenges for TStringList and TIntList and any
other TLists that might be needed.

At the least we need to be able to use our own Compare function for the
data type.


Either way I think I will particaipate in this challenege.


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Joe Bain
www.iegsoftware.com
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