On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 11:52:10AM -0400, Horst von Brand wrote:
> [email protected] said:
>
> > As per http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/shellsort.html, this should be
> > referred to as a Shell sort. Shell-Metzner is a misnomer.
>
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel Dickman <[email protected]>
> > Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <[email protected]>
>
> Why not use the sort routine from lib/sort.c?
Because the groups are not in an array. They're in a bunch of
page-sized blocks and the indexing function knows how to look at the
index block and make everything look like an array from the point of
view of the shell sort. I couldn't come up with a clean way to handle
it.
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Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.
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