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melling
on June 3, 2011
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Google paper comparing performance of C++, Java, S...
Please provide the code and set of data. If C++ is 100x faster than Python this might not always be the case.
melling
on June 3, 2011
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Down voted because people think Quicksort always wins in Python vs. a Bubble sort in C++? Wish I had time to find a case where that's not true. I'll point out that in the worst case, Quicksort is O(n^2).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorting_algorithm#Quicksort
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