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From: "Dr E. Buxbaum" <EB15@le.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Should I learn C or Pascal?
Date: 1996/08/16
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djohnson@tartarus.ucsd.edu (Darin Johnson) wrote:
>> A binary sort, also known as quicksort, or Hoare's sort is covered extensively

>"quicksort is the fastest sort" categorization without really
>understanding it.  

A common misconception. Quicksort is fast for UNSORTED data. For data 
which are largely presorted (a common occurance if a bunch of additional 
data has to be added to a list), Quicksort becomes Slowsort. 

Resume: Spend some time on checking your data first, then decide on the 
proper sorting algorithm!