Re: qsort (was Re: Solaris)

In article <26779(dot)1051629468(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>,
Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>I agree on that --- but when it's provable that we do know better than a
>*particular* OS, dropping in the BSD qsort seems like an easy win. Can
>anyone back up Mark's finding that the BSD qsort is quicker than glibc's?

Better yet: Anyway of running performance tests from configure?

Would a simple counter in the compare function be sufficient to determine
the speed?

mrc

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