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Re: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not)

From Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com>
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Subject Re: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not)
Date 2026-03-19 11:19 +0200
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On Wed, 18 Mar 2026 11:20:03 +0100
David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wrote:

> On 18/03/2026 10:21, Michael S wrote:
> > On Wed, 18 Mar 2026 02:40:50 +0100
> > Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >   
> >> On 2026-03-17 13:37, Bart wrote:  
> >>> On 17/03/2026 12:08, Janis Papanagnou wrote:  
> >>>> On 2026-03-17 12:47, Bart wrote:  
> >>>>> On 17/03/2026 04:38, Janis Papanagnou wrote:  
> >>>>>> On 2026-03-17 01:29, Bart wrote:  
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> (Also I quite like using bubble sort because so many deride
> >>>>>>> it!)  
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> How miserable!  (I feel so sorry for you.)  
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Why would that be miserable?  
> >>>>
> >>>> Because of the reason you pretend for using it.
> >>>>     
> >>>>> [...]
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Bubble-sorting even 1000 strings takes about 10ms, which is
> >>>>> small fraction of overall build-time of a library exporting 1000
> >>>>> functions.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> For a mere 100 functions, sort time is negligible.  
> >>>>
> >>>> And because of reason here based on arbitrary absolute times
> >>>> instead of actual algorithmic complexity.  
> >>>
> >>> No, timing is considered relative to the rest of the task.
> >>>
> >>> If this ever became a bottleneck then it is a trivial upgrade to a
> >>> better routine.  
> >>
> >> If there are simple better algorithms there's no reason but
> >> ignorance to not use them in the first place! - It's really
> >> stupid to deliberately use inferior, or (as here) even the
> >> worst existing algorithms.  
> > 
> > Bubble sort is not the worst existing, far from it. It is O(n**2).
> > Some algos, which names I don't remember are O(n**3).  
> 
> Bogosort is O(n * n!) on average - keep rearranging the elements at 
> random, then check if they are sorted.  (The worst case is only
> bounded complexity if your random generator is pseduo-random rather
> than truly random.)

I didn't mean something intentionally crippled.
I remember seeing examples of worse than O(n**2) algorithms that at
first glance look reasonable. I don't remember details.

> 
> O(n²) worst-case is not uncommon, even amongst sorting algorithms
> that are quite smart, like quicksort.
> 
> 
> > The problem with bubble sort is that relatively to other popular
> > O(n**2) sorting algorithms, i.e. using Knuth's nomenclature,
> > Straight Insertion and Straight Selection, it is not just
> > measurably slower, but also a little more complicated to code.  
> 
> I am not convinced on the complexity point - but it will vary by 
> programming language, and what you consider "complicated".
> 

The language is 'C'.
Here are implementations of Straight Insertion and Straight Select.
Show me implementation of Bubble sort that is not at least a little
more complicated.
Remember that it has to be "real" bubble sort, not a simplified bubble
sort that does unnecessary work by starting each time from the
beginning. Your variant shall avoid obviously unnecessary work and
shall be opportunistic, i.e. quick at handling almost sorted cases.

#include <stddef.h>
#include <string.h>

void straight_insertion_sort(const char** buffer, size_t n)
{
  for (size_t i = 1; i < n; ++i) {
    const char* a = buffer[i];
    size_t k;
    for (k = i; k != 0; --k) {
      if (!(strcmp(a, buffer[k-1]) < 0))
        break;
      buffer[k] = buffer[k-1];
    }
    buffer[k] = a;
  }
}

void straight_select_sort(const char** buffer, size_t n)
{
  for (size_t i = 1; i < n; ++i) {
    const char* mn = buffer[i];
    size_t mn_k = i;
    for (size_t k = i+1; k < n; ++k) {
      if (strcmp(buffer[k], mn) < 0) {
        mn = buffer[k];
        mn_k = k;
      }
    }
    buffer[mn_k] = buffer[i];
    buffer[i] = mn;
  }
}


> > However it has one pro point to it: it is very fast when applied to
> > almost sorted data sets.
> >   
> 
> It is also stable, has no memory overhead, exchanges pairs of data 
> in-place, and only ever exchanges adjacent data.  These can also be 
> advantages in some situations.  (Of course there are alternative
> sorting algorithms that have these same advantages and are, at least
> usually, more efficient.)
> 
> I don't think pure bubblesort has much serious use outside
> educational purposes, but it is easy to understand, easy to implement
> correctly in pretty much any language, and can do a perfectly good
> job if you don't need efficient sorting of large datasets (for small
> enough datasets, a hand-written bubblesort in C will be faster than
> calling qsort).
> 

IMHO, Bubble Sort is harder to understand then Straight Select Sort.

> But I also think people sometimes jump to simplistic views of 
> efficiency, as though a sorting algorithm can be boiled down to just
> a single "O(f(n))" complexity.  With enough data, things like cache 
> coherency matter more than operation counts - and with little data, 
> efficiency often doesn't matter at all.
> 

Cache coherency does not matter until you start to parallelize.

Things that even at moderate N could matter more than operation counts
are predictability of branches and locality of of array access.
But it applies only to cases when key comparison is quick and records
are small. When either of two conditions does not hold you are back at
operation count (either # of comparisons or # of moves) as a main
bottleneck.






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                Re: sorting Was: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2026-03-20 15:08 +0200
                Re: sorting Was: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2026-03-20 13:43 +0000
                Re: sorting Was: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2026-03-20 15:51 +0200
                Re: sorting Was: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2026-03-20 14:47 +0100
                Re: sorting Was: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2026-03-22 02:03 +0200
                Re: sorting Was: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2026-03-22 04:03 +0100
                Re: sorting Was: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2026-04-06 15:13 -0700
                Re: sorting Was: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2026-04-07 02:22 +0300
                Re: sorting Was: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2026-04-06 21:00 -0700
                Re: sorting Was: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2026-04-07 09:37 +0300
                Re: sorting Was: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2026-04-07 21:54 -0700
                Re: sorting Was: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2026-04-09 16:06 +0000
                Re: sorting Was: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2026-04-11 09:04 -0700
                Re: sorting Was: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2026-04-11 19:55 +0000
                Re: sorting Was: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch) - 2026-04-07 14:46 +0000
                Re: sorting Was: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2026-04-07 20:04 -0700
                Re: sorting Was: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2026-04-09 21:15 +0000
                Re: sorting Was: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2026-04-10 01:31 +0300
                Re: sorting Was: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2026-04-12 06:17 -0700
                Re: sorting Was: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2026-04-11 21:32 -0700
                Re: sorting Was: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2026-04-12 04:59 +0000
                Re: sorting Was: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch) - 2026-04-09 23:33 +0000
                Re: sorting Was: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2026-04-10 11:35 +0000
                Re: sorting Was: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2026-04-12 07:13 -0700
                Re: sorting Was: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2026-04-13 20:44 +0000
                Re: sorting Was: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2026-03-20 14:01 +0200
                Re: sorting Was: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2026-04-06 13:48 -0700
                Re: sorting Was: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2026-04-07 01:58 +0300
                Re: sorting Was: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2026-04-07 01:02 +0100
                Re: sorting Was: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2026-04-07 08:01 -0700
                Re: sorting Was: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch) - 2026-03-19 23:21 +0000
                Re: sorting Was: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2026-04-06 18:37 -0700
                Re: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2026-03-20 04:33 +0100
                Re: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2026-03-20 14:24 +0200
                Re: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2026-03-22 05:06 +0100
                Re: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2026-03-22 09:30 +0200
                Re: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2026-04-07 02:12 -0700
                Re: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2026-04-07 14:00 +0300
                Re: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2026-04-07 16:39 -0400
                Re: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2026-04-12 11:16 -0700
                Re: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) Tristan Wibberley <tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk> - 2026-03-25 00:45 +0000
                Re: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2026-03-17 06:25 +0100
                Re: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) Tristan Wibberley <tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk> - 2026-03-20 01:33 +0000
                Re: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2026-03-20 07:42 +0100
                Re: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) Tristan Wibberley <tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk> - 2026-03-20 12:16 +0000
                Re: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2026-03-14 16:22 +0000
                Re: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2026-03-14 18:04 +0100
                Re: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2026-03-14 17:39 +0000
                Re: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2026-03-14 19:25 +0100
            Re: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2026-03-13 00:54 +0000
              Re: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2026-03-13 00:31 -0400
                Re: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2026-03-13 06:24 +0100
                Re: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2026-03-13 01:40 -0400
                Re: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2026-03-13 01:34 -0400
                Re: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2026-03-13 14:38 +0000
                Re: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2026-03-13 15:31 +0000
                Re: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2026-03-15 13:15 -0700
                Re: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2026-03-16 15:18 +0000
                Re: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2026-03-23 21:23 -0700
                Re: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2026-03-13 18:47 -0400
                Re: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2026-03-15 14:38 -0700
                Re: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2026-03-13 07:24 +0100
                Re: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2026-03-13 01:51 -0700
                Re: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2026-03-13 09:54 +0100
                Re: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2026-03-13 10:29 +0100
                Re: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2026-03-13 10:33 +0100
                Re: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2026-03-13 11:57 -0700
                Re: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2026-03-13 11:58 -0700
                Re: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2026-03-13 14:29 +0000
            Re: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2026-03-13 08:08 +0100
              Re: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2026-03-13 04:19 -0400
            Re: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2026-03-13 09:53 +0100
              Re: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2026-03-13 09:56 +0100
              Re: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2026-03-13 05:10 -0400
                Re: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2026-03-13 10:14 +0100
          Re: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2026-03-13 17:32 +0000
            Re: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2026-03-13 18:44 +0100
              Re: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2026-03-13 19:36 +0000
                Re: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2026-03-14 06:03 +0100
      Re: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2026-03-12 16:56 +0000
    Re: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2026-03-20 23:07 -0700
      Re: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2026-03-22 16:55 -0400
        Re: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2026-03-26 20:08 -0700
          Re: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2026-03-27 00:35 -0400
            Re: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2026-03-26 21:53 -0700
            Re: Isn't that beauty ? (no it's not) gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2026-03-27 17:03 +0000

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