Value of microeffiency (was: Re: Optimal ...)

[Tom Stockfisch]

In article <472 at proxftl.UUCP> bill at proxftl.UUCP (T. William Wells) writes:
>In article <4616 at b-tech.UUCP>, zeeff at b-tech.UUCP (Jon Zeeff) writes:
>) In article <688 at clsib21.UUCP> ebg at clsib21.UUCP (Ed Gordon) writes:
>) >>>   [I wrote a much-faster clone of qsort() using linked-lists]
> However, I might go ahead and
>publish it.  There is one minor gotcha: the drawback, not copied
>in the message above, is that the routine has got to get memory
>for the linked list.

Rewrite your interface so that the user must supply the memory for
the linked list and free it himself, so that if allocation/deallocation
is an issue, the user can handle it.
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|| Tom Stockfisch, UCSD Chemistry	tps at chem.ucsd.edu