Comments on: Efficient Software http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/archives/2007/04/20/efficient-software/ Sarah and Alaric Snell-Pym living in interesting times Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:45:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: woolstar http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/archives/2007/04/20/efficient-software/#comment-34025 woolstar Thu, 26 Apr 2007 06:38:04 +0000 http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/archives/2007/04/20/efficient-software/#comment-34025 <p>What I love is that shell sort beats quicksort every time, and its easy, and nobody can tell you <em>precisely</em> how it works. It just does. It doesn't always beat quicksort, but its consistent. Lovely thing.</p> <p>Btw, the people who care about performance, now live in the land of the mobile phone. Year 2007: cpu 100mgz, memory 8mbs. Wow, seems like I was here before.</p> What I love is that shell sort beats quicksort every time, and its easy, and nobody can tell you precisely how it works. It just does. It doesn't always beat quicksort, but its consistent. Lovely thing.

Btw, the people who care about performance, now live in the land of the mobile phone. Year 2007: cpu 100mgz, memory 8mbs. Wow, seems like I was here before.

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