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[73.71.208.212]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 5a478bee46e88-315867c6a29sm8995677eec.29.2026.08.04.17.22.41 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Tue, 04 Aug 2026 17:22:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Peter Taraba To: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, peter.schuster.taraba@gmail.com Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH] lib: add statsort(), a distribution/bucket sort Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2026 17:22:23 -0700 Message-ID: <20260805002223.77130-1-peter.schuster.taraba@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.55.0 In-Reply-To: <20260804165842.c0004b4479ba053fe60d1993@linux-foundation.org> References: <20260804165842.c0004b4479ba053fe60d1993@linux-foundation.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit because it's much faster than current alternatives and linux kernel will need it in future. don't forget the unknown is much larger than known. FYI - this alg is even faster than C++ Boost library: https://github.com/drpt78stu2/fspclib