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[HN] FreeBSD replaces bubblesort with mergesort on SYSINTs, results in 100x speed (twitter.com)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

I mean, glad they figured it out I suppose.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year 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.