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Date:      Wed, 7 Sep 2022 09:57:10 +0200
From:      Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org>
To:        Xin Li <delphij@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-src-all@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-src-main@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: git: c65e42dbde41 - main - libc: add test case for qsort_b(3)
Message-ID:  <c6868443-0852-f1b4-243d-da2bb2459ca0@selasky.org>
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On 9/7/22 09:17, Xin Li wrote:
> I'm not sure if removing qsort() interface from the kernel is a good 
> idea, because apparently it's being used in a lot of places.  Note that 
> it doesn't have to be the current implementation, we can always replace 
> it with something better if available.

We may want to replace it with something that is stable, typically 
mergesort() or for that sake my mbin_sort() if no memory may be allocated.

--HPS



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