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Re:FreeBSD spends 7% of its boot time running a bubblesort o... by jjoonathan on Friday May 19, 2023 @04:31PM (#36006526)
I'd expect kernel devs to carry lots of bad habits and poorly calibrated intuition from their noob days. Example: "for loops are fine."
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Re:FreeBSD spends 7% of its boot time running a bubblesort o... by sgerenser on Friday May 19, 2023 @09:01PM (#36008450)
What’s wrong with for loops?
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Re:FreeBSD spends 7% of its boot time running a bubblesort o... by jjoonathan on Sunday May 21, 2023 @11:04AM (#36021706)
They encourage accidentally quadratic behavior if they are easier than calling sort().
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