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Re:FreeBSD replaces bubblesort with mergesort on SYSINTs, re... by mort96 on Monday August 21, 2023 @03:50PM (#37214447)
What language should they have used instead of C?

And given that C's stdlib has a quicksort function, how would using a different language have helped?

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Re:FreeBSD replaces bubblesort with mergesort on SYSINTs, re... by eru on Monday August 21, 2023 @03:52PM (#37214467)
Back then C might have been the best bet.
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