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    adopt suggestions from Bentley and McIlroy (SP&E Nov 1993) · 5aa7dc5d
    Russ Cox authored
    to make qsort more robust:
    
    	* use "ninther" to choose pivot.
    	* use three-way partition to avoid quadratic
     	  behavior on all-one-value arrays.
    
    also add tests suggested in that paper.
    
    the immediate cause of the slowness we observed was
    in fact none of these: the recursive call was sorting
    data[0:m] instead of data[a:m].
    
    also rename package to "sort" to match convention.
    
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    CL=19373
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