In D36493#853292, @zlei wrote:

For applications that expect repeatability, stable sort algorithms are required. In that case neither qsort nor bsort should be applied.

I have a concern about this change. Qsort and bsort are both deterministic but neither is stable, and I imagine they won't sort equal keys in the same order. This could be an issue for an application that expects repeatability and should be flagged up very visibly

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In D9876#280057, @avg wrote:

Is there still an interest in getting this moving forward?
I think that it should be relatively easy to address my comments and get this into a committable shape.