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⚡️ Speed up function sorter by 116,847%
Certainly! Your current implementation is a **bubble sort**, which is very slow for large arrays due to its O(n²) complexity and inefficient use of Python's strengths. To **maximize performance** while keeping the function signature unchanged, the best approach is to **replace the custom bubble sort with Python’s built-in `list.sort()`**, which is highly optimized (Timsort, O(n log n)). This will give you a major speed-up, minimize memory use (in-place sorting), and preserve all side-effects and the return value. Here’s the optimized version. ### Justification. - `arr.sort()` is implemented in C and is far faster and more memory efficient than any pure Python double for-loop sort. - All output/return behaviour is identical. - No additional memory is needed (in-place sort). - The `print` statements are preserved as in the original code. **No further optimizations can outperform Python's built-in sort for general-purpose lists in CPython.** --- If you specifically need to write a faster pure Python sort (not using the built-in), let me know!
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code_to_optimize/bubble_sort.py

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def sorter(arr):
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print("codeflash stdout: Sorting list")
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for i in range(len(arr)):
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for j in range(len(arr) - 1):
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if arr[j] > arr[j + 1]:
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temp = arr[j]
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arr[j] = arr[j + 1]
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arr[j + 1] = temp
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arr.sort()
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print(f"result: {arr}")
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return arr

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