Hoare’s Rebuttal and Bubble Sort’s Comeback

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  • ips4o

    In-place Parallel Super Scalar Samplesort (IPS⁴o)

  • A while ago I was tinkering with Quicksort and avoiding branch mispredictions.

    https://easylang.online/blog/qsort_c.html

    My implementation is pretty fast. At a size of 40 or 50, I switch to Insertion sort, and there the branchless bubblesort is significantly slower (I just tried it).

    But I have to admit defeat to this SampleSort:

    https://github.com/SaschaWitt/ips4o

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