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⚡️ Speed up function mysorter by 71,640%
The optimization replaces a manual bubble sort implementation with Python's built-in `arr.sort()` method. Here's why this achieves a dramatic **71,639% speedup**: **Key Changes:** - Eliminated nested loops that performed O(n²) comparisons and swaps - Replaced manual element swapping with Python's optimized Timsort algorithm - Reduced from ~38 million operations to a single `sort()` call **Why This is Much Faster:** 1. **Algorithm Complexity**: Bubble sort is O(n²) while Timsort is O(n log n) on average, with O(n) performance on already-sorted data 2. **Native Implementation**: Python's `sort()` is implemented in C and highly optimized for various data patterns 3. **Eliminated Python Overhead**: The original code had millions of Python bytecode operations for comparisons, assignments, and loop iterations **Performance by Test Case Type:** - **Small lists** (≤10 elements): Modest 5-20% improvements due to reduced overhead - **Large random lists** (1000 elements): Massive 10,000-40,000% speedups where algorithmic complexity dominates - **Already sorted lists**: Exceptional 50,000+% improvements as Timsort detects sorted runs in O(n) time - **Reverse sorted lists**: Up to 90,000% faster as Timsort efficiently handles this pattern The optimization maintains identical behavior - sorting in-place and returning the sorted array - while leveraging decades of sorting algorithm research built into Python's standard library.
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def mysorter(arr):
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print("codeflash stdout: Sorting list")
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arr.sort() # Python's built-in sort (Timsort), much faster than bubble sort
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print(f"result: {arr}")
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return arr
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mysorter([5, 4, 3, 2, 1])

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