Bug 150843

Summary: Consider something better than bubble sort for insertion sets
Product: WebKit Reporter: Filip Pizlo <fpizlo>
Component: JavaScriptCoreAssignee: Nobody <webkit-unassigned>
Status: NEW    
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P2    
Version: WebKit Nightly Build   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 154319    

Filip Pizlo
Reported 2015-11-03 10:46:01 PST
achristiansen suggested falling back on stable sort if we do too many passes. ggaren suggested insertion sort. There's also the possibility that we could make merge sort a lot faster, if we didn't use system malloc as the temp buffer allocator.
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