On Monday, 10 September 2007, at 17:17:21 (-0500),
Jesse Luehrs wrote:

> While it's true that bubble sort isn't ever going to be faster,
> that's not just because it's always O(n^2). Insertion sort is also
> O(n^2), but it does outperform quicksort on small data sets (under
> 10 elements or so)... highly optimized sorting algorithms often use
> quicksort to sort large data sets, but switch to insertion sort once
> the partitions drop below a certain size, since it's faster. See
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insertion_sort for details.

True.  I had forgotten that tidbit.  Thanks! :)

Michael

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