"Michael Mattias" <mmattias@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> "Anonymous" <r1a@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>> I don't think ARRAY SORT would be just as efficient here.Direct memory
manipulation, as in the C code, would be much more
>> preferable.
>
> You don't think ARRAY SORT would be as efficient as direct memory
manipulation? Um, what do you think the compiler does when your
> source code reads "ARRAY SORT ..??" (Hint: the initials are "direct
memory manipulation").
>
> Then again, using ARRAY SORT doesn't really teach you much about
structures and memory management. Of course, that's why people
> actually purchase licenses for high-level language products, so they
don't have to do all that dirty work themselves.
He is studying sorting algorithms (algorithms & data structures), so using
array sort wouldn't help with that. :-)
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