On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 10:49:10PM +0000, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> On 6 February 2012 21:19, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> > Peter Geoghegan obviously has done some serious work in improving
> > sorting, and worked well with the community process.
>
> Thank you for acknowledging that.
>
> It's unfortunate that C does not support expressing these kinds of
> ideas in a more natural way.
Yes, it is a problem, and a benefit. We have avoided C++ because these
types of trade-offs that we are discussing are often done invisibly, so
we can't make the decision ourselves.
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