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Subject: Re: qsort switching to insertsort
To: Tristan Verniquet <tris_vern@hotmail.com>,
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From: Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org>
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On 11/26/16 11:26, Tristan Verniquet wrote:
> The easiest way forward for us is probably to comment out the offending code.
>

Commenting out the offending code does not help. It simply leaves for 
another type of dataset to provide the same behaviour. qsort() is doomed 
in this regard.

--HPS