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orlp
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Branchless Quicksort faster than std:sort and pdqs...
It's just a play on words, something lightweight drifts in the wind rather than gliding on a wing. It's really not all that deep.
CyberDildonics
48 days ago
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How does that relate to the mechanics of the algorithm?
conradludgate
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Does quicksort explain the mechanics of the algorithm?
CyberDildonics
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No, but it was also named in the 60s. If someone was three comments deep replying to people asking about it, at some point someone would say "it's quick and in place because it does a recursive partition".
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