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Glidesort with Orson Peters

Rustacean Station

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Python's Slow Sorting Algorithm

The Python sorting algorithm is much more focused on reducing the total amount of comparisons than I would be in Rust, right? On a modern processor, you can do multiple comparisons at the same time during one cycle. Whereas a comparison in Python could be hundreds, maybe thousands of cycles. So it's a completely different optimization landscape.

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