An exercise-driven course on Advanced Python Programming that was battle-tested several hundred times on the corporate-training circuit for more than a decade. Written by David Beazley, author of the ...

A recent article reports that an Oracle patent on a fast sorting method has expired, allowing open source databases to use it freely. Mark Callaghan, the inventor behind the sorting algorithm, shows ...

This block sorts the elements of the input vector using the quicksort algorithm as described in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quicksort Quicksort is the world's most ...

Abstract: By detecting arrays with a low degree of presort-edness, an adaptive quicksort algorithm can switch to a branch free implementation in order to reduce the runtime by up to 2.5 times compared ...

Abstract: In many real-world applications, sorting is a crucial data structure. Sorting algorithms are methods for rearranging a collection of unsorted items into a desired format or order. A lot of ...