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Optimize sorter
The optimization replaces a manual bubble sort implementation with Python's built-in `arr.sort()` method, delivering a **185,325% speedup**.
**Key Changes:**
- **Eliminated nested loops**: The original code used O(n²) bubble sort with nested loops that performed ~113M iterations for larger inputs
- **Leveraged Timsort**: Python's `sort()` uses Timsort, an optimized hybrid algorithm with O(n log n) average complexity and O(n) best-case performance for nearly-sorted data
- **Reduced function calls**: Eliminated millions of array index operations and comparisons per sort
**Why It's Faster:**
- **Algorithmic improvement**: Timsort is fundamentally more efficient than bubble sort, especially as data size increases
- **Native C implementation**: Python's sort is implemented in optimized C code rather than interpreted Python loops
- **Adaptive sorting**: Timsort performs exceptionally well on real-world data patterns (partially sorted, reverse sorted, etc.)
**Performance Characteristics:**
- **Small arrays (≤10 elements)**: Modest 10-45% speedup due to reduced overhead
- **Large arrays (1000 elements)**: Dramatic 34,000-100,000% speedup where algorithmic complexity dominates
- **Best performance**: Already sorted or reverse-sorted large arrays benefit most from Timsort's adaptive nature
- **Consistent gains**: All test cases show improvement, with larger datasets seeing exponentially better performance1 parent 530158c commit 189bc75
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