Re: qsort (was Re: Solaris)

Mike Castle wrote:

>First I added a counter to the compare function, and the most cases, the
>glibc implementation was called significantly less often than the BSD
>compare function.
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Interesting - all examples I tried had glibc compare count higher, do
you want to post one of yours?

>In a simple test function, like comparing two ints, then yes, the BSD
>implementation was faster. But in a more complex function, say comparing
>strings, often times the glibc version was faster. Why? Because the
>time spent in the compare function became the overwhelming factor.
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Considering strings is a good point - I went away and tried some
examples, unfortunately I only managed to see BSD faster, but the
difference was not as large as in the integer tests.

regards

Mark