Talk:Sorting algorithms/Quicksort: Difference between revisions

Yeah, the problem statement is completely wrong. The algorithm described is not the real quicksort but a bastardized version that was promoted by the Haskell community that avoids mutation at the cost of asymptotically more space consumption and, consequently, it is practically worthless because it runs hundreds of times slower than a real quicksort (but it can be written concisely in Haskell!). The problem statement should be changed to a real in-place quicksort that actually works. ---[[User:Jon Harrop]]