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Subject: Re: Fast sort? - Bubble Sort!? (Question to Dr. Hyatt)

Author: Jeremiah Penery

Date: 16:49:30 10/18/99

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On October 18, 1999 at 17:28:12, Oliver Roese wrote:

>On October 18, 1999 at 16:48:51, leonid wrote:
>
>>On October 18, 1999 at 14:03:49, KarinsDad wrote:
>>
>>>On October 16, 1999 at 07:59:32, leonid wrote:
>(...)
>>>>If somebogy will mention what is the "bubble sort" it will be appreciated.
>>>>
>>>>Leonid.
>
>(...Explanation)
>>
>>Thanks for responding!
>>
>(...)
>
>
>BTW, by glancing through an older crafty version


This is in even the new Crafty versions. :)  It says:

/*
 ----------------------------------------------------------
|                                                          |
|   don't disdain the lowly bubble sort here.  the list of |
|   captures is always short, and experiments with other   |
|   algorithms are always slightly slower.                 |
|                                                          |
 ----------------------------------------------------------
*/



> i stumpeld across a remarkable
>comment there. Dr. Hyatt says there, that Bubblesort has outperformed all other
>sortalgorithms for a particular sortproblem!
>This is amazing, since AFAIK Bubblesort is the one documented sort-algorithm
>that is theoretically dominated by any other documented sort-algorithm.
>Consequently it is doomed by many as the "poor-mans-sort."
>Since i assume Dr. Hyatt knows what he say, we have a counterexample.
>Is there a explanation to that?
>
>Best Regards
>Oliver



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