Sorting Algorithms: Speed Is Found In The Minds of People - Andrei Alexandrescu - CppCon 2019

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An entertaining, rigorous performance investigation by a leading C++ expert.

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Andrei Alexandrescu explores how to make sorting faster, discovering counterintuitive results about branch prediction and algorithm design.

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