&gt; In other words, the only way to do good, efficient, and <i></i>system-level<i></i> ...<p>He didn&#x27;t say it was horrible for everything, he&#x27;s talk about system-level programming. I have every confidence in the STL that <i>std::sort</i> will always work, but when you&#x27;re writing code at the bit and byte level it&#x27;s not a surprise that it&#x27;s not the correct tool for the job.