RE: [xsl] XSLT sort

[Tomas Olsson <tomas.olsson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

ok,

Is the sort element in XSLT depended on how sorted the document are from 
the beginning? Like the QuickSort algorithm, when a already sorted array 
takes less time to sort then a array thats not?

/Tomas

> >
> > If i use 8k lines the time will be around 3 seconds and I
> > would like it to
> > be around 1.5 seconds. Half the time. Maybe its not possible?
> >
>
> It sounds do-able. As it happens the New Testament contains 7957 verses;
> Saxon can sort them alphabetically in 991 milliseconds. That's a stylesheet
> that does nothing except select the verses and sort them. There's really no
> tuning you can usefully do to the code of such a stylesheet.
>
> Michael Kay