How to Sort 2 Dimensional Array with 5 Columns

[Elroy]

*laughs, shakes my head, and shouts out to moderator*

OMG, shut this thread down before they bring in fractals and/or chaos theory to optimize their sorts.

Poor mhnvb gave us a four line situation that he wanted sorted, and we're talking about the entire history of sorting algorithms. LMAO.

In my mind, optimal sorting has LONG been relegated to the bowels of more low level programming, and need not be a concern of RAD (end-user application) programmers.

But hey ho, if VB6 can do it, let's go for it. But wait, VB6 doesn't use CPU registers as efficiently as C and other lower level programs (or even assembler). So shouldn't we start talking about optimal use of CPU registers?

Y'all Take Care,
Elroy

[Schmidt]

In my mind, optimal sorting has LONG been relegated to the bowels of more low level programming, and need not be a concern of RAD (end-user application) programmers.

Since the vbRuntime does not offer built-in Sort-Methods (aside from the crude VB-ListBox-workaround) -
one either has to use external libraries - or implement a Sort-Algo in the VB-language itself.

So - since that is the situation, I don't really see why discussions about Sort-Algo-efficiency is misplaced -
or "not a concern for RAD-programmers".

But hey ho, if VB6 can do it, let's go for it. But wait, VB6 doesn't use CPU registers as efficiently as C and other lower level programs (or even assembler). So shouldn't we start talking about optimal use of CPU registers?

You seem not to be aware of the fact, that VB5/6-versions compile natively over a C-Compiler,
which ships with the product and ensures a compiled runtime-performance which is comparable
to the output of VC++6.

There's enough VB6-implemented routines out there, which outperform their counterparts
which were done in "native-C" (as one finds them in the vbRuntime or other MS-libs).

Olaf