Re: [boost] Any interest in a sorting library with a multitude ofsorts?

From: Michael Marcin (mmarcin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-03-13 21:28:10

Giovanni Piero Deretta wrote:
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> Isn't sort + stable sort enough?
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> Do we really need specialized interfaces for these?
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I for one would like a generic radix sort where I could specify the number 
of bits to grab and where in a UDT to grab each bit or a range of bits from.

Do you really see no use for a O(n) sorting algorithm?