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⚡️ Speed up function sorter by 190,052%
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.
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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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