Re: djbdns-1.05-epoll + speedup patch

["Matthew R. Dempsky" <mrd@alkemio.org>]

On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 04:47:46PM +0200, Sami Farin wrote:
> Not that it matters much, but version 20070305T031624Z
> already compares >= 0.  It also does one useless loop
> if n == 1 before for-loop unless I check for it.  But dns_sortip
> is called by dnscache only with n == 64 (16).

I'm refering to the fact that the former code uses the Knuth shuffle
algorithm to generate a uniform distribution over all possible
permutations.  The new code does not.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth_shuffle#Poorly_implemented_Knuth_shuffles