“We estimate that our open-sourced sorting algorithms, yielding speed improvements from 2% to ~70%, are called trillions of times every day worldwide,” said Mankowitz. “These algorithms can ...

Over the years, a handful of sorting algorithms have emerged, each characterizable by it’s asymptotic order, a measure of how much longer an algorithm takes as the problem size gets bigger.

It has found an improved way for computers to sort data ... a 1.7 per cent speed boost is useful. But he says that even if similar efficiencies are found in other common algorithms he is sceptical ...

When you’re trying to learn how an algorithm works, it’s not always easy to visualize what’s going on. Well, except for maybe binary sort ... they can speed it up or slow it down with ...

Such algorithms get called over and over again in programs that sort longer lists. Speed-ups in these short algorithms will therefore have a cumulative knock-on effect. But short algorithms have ...

That’s what a new video from the TED-Ed YouTube channel does, by showing how different sorting algorithms can transform our ability to quickly alphabetize a large number of books on a bookshelf.

The algorithm addresses something called the library sorting problem (more formally, the “list labeling” problem). The challenge is to devise a strategy for organizing books in some kind of ...