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Quicksort

Quicksort (n): a sorting algorithm which accepts an array of integers (or hashable objects), and sorts it.

Quicksort remains the most commonly implemented sorting algorithm, despite being decades old.

by codemastercode January 26, 2011

Qsort

Qsort (n): a C++ function accepting, among other things, a pointer to an array, and applies the Quicksort algorithm to sort the array.

Qsort (n): see Quicksort.

Qsort must be the fastest sorting algorithm ever.

by codemastercode January 26, 2011

Port

Port (v): To rewrite code in a different programming language that remains functionally identical.

He ported Windows to Python.

by codemastercode January 26, 2011