From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 13:49:10 GMT
Subject: Re: [DEMO][PATCH v2 6/5] compat: add a qsort_s() implementation based on GNU's qsort_r(1)
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1701261446540.3469@virtualbox>
In-Reply-To: <20170125185153.obqwxiniyz2omxsi@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Hi,

On Wed, 25 Jan 2017, Jeff King wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 07:43:01PM +0100, René Scharfe wrote:
> 
> > If we find such cases then we'd better fix them for all platforms, e.g. by
> > importing timsort, no?
> 
> Yes, as long as they are strict improvements.

I think in many cases, we may be better off by replacing the use of a
string-list for lookups by hashmaps for the same purpose.

Ciao,
Dscho