Re: [Boost-users] sort implementation based on swap

From: Howard Hinnant (hinnant_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-09-16 15:26:47

On Sep 15, 2004, at 5:28 PM, Russell Mok wrote:

> I know this is kinda off topic.
>
> I am trying to sort some objects which are expensive to copy.  Does 
> anyone know a sort implementation that uses neither copier nor 
> assignment?  The STLport version I have is using both.  Worse, some 
> routines are passing arguments as T instead of const T &.  I did 
> search boost and google but I couldn't find what I want.

The Metrowerks implementation of std::sort uses swap (unqualified) 
exclusively.

-Howard