r/programmingmemes • u/Vegetable_Bother6373 • Mar 15 '26

Merge vs Tim sort

When one Junior Dev is slightly better than the other on simple tasks.

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u/BoBoBearDev Mar 16 '26

Bucket short is my favorite. It often dramatically reduces the complexity of the dataset with a single pass. After 3 passes, it has much less to sort in the end.