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Re:Proving that Android’s, Java’s and Python’s sorting algor... by Arnt on Tuesday February 24, 2015 @09:24AM (#9100659)
Pretend you're the maintainer of OpenJDK. Do you want to go down that road or do you want to change to another algorithm? Remember that randomness can be difficult to find and that the malevolent has a copy of the JDK to use for experiments.

Is Quicksort that much better, or do you just change?

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