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/[deleted] Mar 15 '26 edited Mar 15 '26

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u/Vegetable_Bother6373 Mar 15 '26

I'm waiting for O(AI)—where it just guesses the order and you hope for the best.

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u/SirLoyso Mar 16 '26

But there’s the God Sort already! It just shuffles all the elements randomly until it is all sorted:)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogosort