⚡️ Speed up function sorter by 116,847%
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📄 116,847% (1,168.47x) speedup for
sorterincode_to_optimize/bubble_sort.py⏱️ Runtime :
4.87 seconds→4.17 milliseconds(best of60runs)📝 Explanation and details
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.printstatements 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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