On Tuesday 14 December 2004 06:36 pm, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
| In message "Re: no-argument sort()"
|
|     on Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:12:17 +0900, Alex Fenton 
<alex / deleteme.pressure.to> writes:
| |> It bypasses #<=> for objects of class String and subclasses
| |
| |Is that considered a bug, a feature or a performance compromise?
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| Performance compromise.
|
|        matz.

Sorry, how does that provide better performance? Simply b/c it can't be 
overridden?

Thanks,
T.