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Re:Is this the simplest (and most surprising) sorting algori... by bjoli on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @07:22AM (#28771740)
Nope. This was in PLT scheme. Fixnums were eq? to other fixnums, meaning they satisfied the most basic equality.

Arguing was futile. When we started benchmarking very large lists, the counting sort was the only one that did it in reasonable time. Despite being disqualified.

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