this post was submitted on 31 Aug 2023
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[–] frezik@midwest.social 19 points 1 year ago

The more interesting story here is that in 2023, FreeBSD was still using bubblesort. They made it go 100 times faster than a really slow thing, and we've known it's slow for a long time.