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From: "boyd, rounin" <boyd@insultant.net>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] UTF-8 criticism?
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 20:39:00 +0200
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> If you were to sort a UTF-8 string for some reason, the bubble
> sort would actually have a lower order of magnitude than the
> quicksort.

that's not the real problem.  it's implementing the collation
sequences.  the internal representation as 16 bit unsigneds
is not a problem.