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Re: [patch #3596] Sort directories before files in "ls"


From: Alfred M\. Szmidt
Subject: Re: [patch #3596] Sort directories before files in "ls"
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 21:43:48 +0100

    > EVIL.  You are calling qsort twice for every element (once to
    > put directories first, then twice again on the subsets).  This
    > is twice as slow as just writing a proper sort function that
    > does everything all in one comparison, so that you only call
    > qsort once.

I agree with Eric.




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