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A comment on Hoare’s Rebuttal and Bubble Sort’s Comeback. Parent comment

Re:Hoare’s Rebuttal and Bubble Sort’s Comeback by gerbenst on Saturday May 30, 2020 @10:27PM (#23366660)
A very interesting suggestion indeed. Shell sort is an insertion sort though. It owes its better complexity from being able to breaking out of loop early. But these are difficult to predict branches that bubble sort avoids.

Certainly this is worth an experiment

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Re:Hoare’s Rebuttal and Bubble Sort’s Comeback by kzrdude on Sunday May 31, 2020 @05:03AM (#23368240)
Well, you are the expert :). I misremebered and thought of the base case for shell sort to be a kind of bubble sort.
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