Sorting Algorithms: Speed Is Found In The Minds of People - Andrei Alexandrescu - CppCon 2019

Why HN readers recommended it

HN recommends it as an entertaining talk that starts simple and goes deep on practical performance optimization.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

CppCon

Topic

sorting performance

Format

talk

Level

advanced

HN recommenders in dataset

7

HN mentions in dataset

11

Recommendation years in dataset

2019–2024

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From the original HN conversations

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• Not exactly a lecture series, but Andrei Alexandrescu has had some fantastic keynote presentations at CppCon. I don't even program in C++ any more, but I've watched these more than once, they're entertaining, approachable, and inspiring: Speed Is Found In The Minds of People [VIDEO] …

• I really enjoyed “Speed Is Found In The Minds Of People”, a talk by Andrei Alexandrescu. At first he is just showing simple stuff, but stay with it, he goes deep. [VIDEO]

• If you're interested in these types of implementation/optimization details, Andrei Alexandrescu gave a great talk at this year's CppCon about practical sorting, e.g. when to break out of quicksort to something else: [VIDEO]