<!-- array-qsort.mldoc --> <!-- Entities.sgml entry <!ENTITY ArrayQSort SDATA "array-sort-sig.sml"> --> <!DOCTYPE ML-DOC SYSTEM> <COPYRIGHT OWNER="Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies" YEAR=1998> <VERSION VERID="1.0" YEAR=1998 MONTH=5 DAY=12> <TITLE>The ArrayQSort structure</TITLE> <INTERFACE> <HEAD>The <CD/ArrayQSort/ structure</HEAD> <SEEALSO> <SIGREF/MONO_ARRAY_SORT/ <FCTREF/ArrayQSortFn/ </SEEALSO> <PP> The <STRREF NOLINK/ArrayQSort/ structure implements functions for the in-place sorting of polymorphic arrays. The algorithm used is based on the a tuned version of quicksort due to J. Bentley and D. McIlroy described in ``Engineering a Sort Function,'' <EM/Software-Practice and Experience/, 23(11), 1993, pp. 1249-1265. <PP> Not that the sorting algorithm is not stable. <STRUCTURE STRID="ArrayQSort"> <ID/ARRAY_SORT/ </STRUCTURE> </INTERFACE>
