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by jonasmalaco 4117 days ago
Do you have the same problem with a deterministic comparison function?

I'm not dismissing the existence of a bug just because of this (although the issue may be related to it), but non-deterministic comparison functions are problematic with many sort _algorithms_. You might experience (other) problems when using implementation independent "sort" APIs, since many algorithms need to rerun the comparison function several times and expect consistent behaviour; I would expect certain algorithms to, for instance, never complete.
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benologist 4117 days ago
The haxe people are the ones you need to discuss it further with. My pastebin expires in a week so you might want to clone it before you link to it.
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jonasmalaco 4116 days ago
Hm... No.
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benologist 4116 days ago
I don't want to attach myself to further discussion of it, but it is still a crash reasonably isolated to their standard library and I took the time to document it so that my feedback could be helpful. If you don't pass it on they will miss this opportunity to improve their platform.
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