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Re:Sorry, Digital Ad Exec, I Probably Don’t Want To Work For... by JamesAcorn on Monday May 13, 2013 @02:39PM (#5700544)
Just curious.. why didn't anyone run a quick benchmark of both methods?
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Re:Sorry, Digital Ad Exec, I Probably Don’t Want To Work For... by gregjor on Monday May 13, 2013 @03:39PM (#5700930)
Project politics. We did run benchmarks and Oracle's ORDER BY clearly came out ahead, but the analyst espousing bubble sort was entrenched and dismissed all benchmarks as special cases.
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