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From: jimmy@blake.acs.washington.edu (Jim Li)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: sorting strings
Keywords: sort, string
Message-ID: <4496@blake.acs.washington.edu>
Date: 17 Nov 89 07:53:33 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Univ of Washington, Seattle
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I want to sort 10000 records, each of 80 bytes long, in ascending order.
I put all the records in 'record' which was defined as follows:

char *record[10000];

What sorting algorithm shoud I use? Should I use the built-in 'qsort()'?
How about mergesort and heapsort?
(I want my program to run as FAST as possible!)

Thanks plenty.

Jim.
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