25 Jun
2002
25 Jun
'02
7:30 a.m.
On Tuesday 25 June 2002 06:09 am, Skip Montanaro wrote: ...
I don't know how efficient it would be, but I usually think that most applications have a small, fixed set of possible priorities, like ("low", "medium", "high") or ("info", "warning", "error", "fatal"). In this sort
Then you do "bin sorting", of course -- always worth considering when you know the sort key can only take a small number of different values (as is the more general "radix sorting" when you have a few such keys, or a key that easily breaks down that way). But it IS rather a special case, albeit an important one (and quite possibly frequently occurring in some application areas). Alex