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AlphaDev discovers faster sorting algorithms (www.deepmind.com)
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AlphaDev uncovered new sorting algorithms that led to improvements in the LLVM libc++ sorting library that were up to 70% faster for shorter sequences and about 1.7% faster for sequences exceeding 250,000 elements.

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[–] knighthawk0811@lemmy.one 4 points 2 years ago

to be fair sometimes the bloat is for security. but yeah, I'm with you here