monz comments on [HN] FreeBSD replaces bubblesort with mergesort on SYSINTs, results in 100x speed

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[–] monz@pawb.social 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Seriously? I’m shocked this is news. This is 1st year computer science degree stuff.

I mean, glad they figured it out I suppose.

[–] jamesb5@programming.dev 3 points 3 years ago

For real, this must be a joke. Bubble sort is the canonical example of a slow algorithms primarily to motivate why the others are better.

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