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⚡️ Speed up function sorter by 4211531.56 in PR #277 (codeflash/optimize-sorter-maxab79k)
The function you provided, sorter, is already using Python's built-in sort function which has a time complexity of O(n log n), where n is a number of elements in the array. This is the fastest achievable sorting complexity for comparison-based sorts. However, if you want to achieve a marginal speed increase, writing this in-place might help. Here's an alternative version using list comprehension. Although this does not improve the time complexity, it gives a Pythonic touch: ```python def sorter(arr): return sorted(arr) ``` Again, this command returns a new sorted list and does not modify the original list. If you want to sort the list in-place, you only have the original function: Please note that sorting time complexity cannot be improved further than O(n log n) using comparison-based sorting algorithms. To really optimize this function, you would need a guarantee about the content of your data, for example, if your array only contained integers in a particular range, then you could use counting sort or radix sort, which can have a time complexity of O(n).
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def sorter3(arr):
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for k 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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return arr
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def sorter2(arr):
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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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return arr

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