Arthur BesseA to General Programming Discussion · 2 years ago

Computer scientists improve Python sorting function

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Computer scientists improve Python sorting function

Arthur BesseA to General Programming Discussion · 2 years ago

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University of Liverpool computer scientists have solved a long-standing algorithmic puzzle to speed up a core building block of Python, the most popular programming language and the foundation of modern artificial intelligence systems.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.it/post/107967

Here is the paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.06909

Here is tbe code: https://github.com/sebawild/powersort

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This one line says it all for me:

With the official release of Python 3.11 this October, hundreds of millions of users will now enjoy sorting getting ever so slightly faster.

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