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⚡️ Speed up function
The optimization replaces a naive bubble sort implementation with Python's built-in `arr.sort()` method, delivering dramatic performance improvements.
**Key Changes:**
- **Eliminated nested loops**: Removed the O(n²) bubble sort algorithm that performs redundant comparisons and swaps
- **Leveraged Timsort**: Python's `sort()` uses Timsort, a highly optimized hybrid stable sorting algorithm that runs in O(n log n) time
- **Removed manual swapping**: Eliminated the three-line temporary variable swap with optimized internal operations
**Why This Is Faster:**
The original bubble sort performs ~75M operations for 1000 elements (nested loops with comparisons and swaps), while Timsort performs ~10K operations. The line profiler shows the nested loops consumed 87% of execution time, with 75M hits on the inner loop alone.
**Performance Characteristics:**
- **Small arrays (≤10 elements)**: 15-65% faster due to reduced overhead
- **Large arrays (1000 elements)**: 40,000-98,000% faster, as bubble sort's O(n²) complexity becomes prohibitive
- **Already sorted data**: Timsort's adaptive nature provides exceptional performance (98,000%+ speedup)
- **String/float data**: Maintains strong performance across all data types
The optimization maintains identical behavior (in-place sorting, same output) while transforming an academic algorithm into production-ready code.sorter by 190,052%1 parent 26d7f63 commit d9883bb
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