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Re:Quicksort (1961) [pdf] by ericfrederich on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @02:29PM (#15452021)
6:47 minutes to sort 2k items.

We've come a long way. Python isn't even the fastest of languages

  $ time python3.6 -c "import random; l = random.choices(range(1_000_000), k=2_000); l.sort()"
  
  real	0m0.033s
... and this also takes into account creating the 2k random ints.
Re:Quicksort (1961) [pdf] by kccqzy on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @02:34PM (#15452066)
And Python doesn’t even use quicksort any more.