> I'm not sure either, since qsort doesn't really have much
> locality of reference but just walks all over the place.
>
> This is direct contrast with the basic assumption on which
> VM and CPU caches are built ;)
>
> I wonder how eg. merge sort would perform ...
Just rip it off NetBSD and there you go. (FreeBSD's breaks on machines
like SPARC, NetBSD's does not.)
http://www.de.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/basesrc/lib/libc/stdlib/merge.c?rev=1.10&cvsroot=netbsd
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