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  1. Path: cs.ruu.nl!usenet
  2. From: Wessel Dankers <wsldanke@cs.ruu.nl>
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
  4. Subject: Re: Sorting a list
  5. Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 12:43:06 +0100
  6. Organization: Universiteit Utrecht, Dept. of Computer Science
  7. Message-ID: <314E9DCA.2E9E@cs.ruu.nl>
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  14.  
  15. Christopher Naas wrote:
  16. > What's the absolutely fastest algorithm for sorting a List with around 1000
  17. > items alphabetically?
  18.  
  19. http://www.lbjhs.austin.isd.tenet.edu/~jcohen/misc/sort.html
  20.  
  21. I can't garuantee it actually works, actually I found it in Yahoo next to
  22. an article that is only good for a quick laugh (Postman sort). It _seems_
  23. to be reasonable, though.
  24.  
  25. --
  26. Wessel Dankers                 _\\|//_            <wsldanke@cs.ruu.nl>
  27.                                ///|\\\
  28. ----------------------------oOO--(_)---OOo----------------------------
  29.  `Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear
  30. to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than
  31. what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.'
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