this post was submitted on 04 Nov 2025

473 points (99.2% liked)

Programmer Humor

27330 readers

1215 users here now

Welcome to Programmer Humor!

This is a place where you can post jokes, memes, humor, etc. related to programming!

For sharing awful code theres also Programming Horror.

Rules

Keep content in english
No advertisements
Posts must be related to programming or programmer topics

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

Feyter@programming.dev

anzo@programming.dev

BurningTurtle@programming.dev

pylapp@programming.dev

473

timeoutSort (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

36 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

In a situation where performance isn't required but absolute zero overhead is paramount, this is a perfect sort. Depends on the data itself though. Lots of small numbers maybe multiply each by 10 or 20, lots of big numbers...well...bad luck.