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Re:Accidentally quadratic: When Python is faster than C++ by masklinn on Thursday March 04, 2021 @11:50AM (#26344750)
> Why is the default set implementation ordered in the first place?

"Sorted" rather than ordered (an order can be arbitrary and I'd personally associate the word with insertion order).

> The formal data structure is unordered

The formal data structure doesn't have complexity bounds, the STL does.

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