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JesseSort: A novel sorting algorithm that is faster than Python's default sort.

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Re: JesseSort: A novel sorting algorithm that is faster than Python's default sort.

#11
If you're going to make a big claim about sort speed, tell me how speed is better/worse for various data. How do the algorithms compare when the data is already ordered, when it's almost (but not quite) already ordered, when it's largely ordered, when it's completely random, and it's in the opposite order. This stuff, as well as the size of the dataset, is what we need to know in practice.

Re: JesseSort: A novel sorting algorithm that is faster than Python's default sort.

#12
I have mixed feelings about the naming. Isn't it kinda off-putting that he named it after himself? usually it's other people who name your algorithm after you. At least that's how it's like in science and engineering (Fourier didn't call it "Fourier transform", Laplace didn't call it "Laplace transform", Kalman didn't name it "Kalman filters", etc.)

Re: JesseSort: A novel sorting algorithm that is faster than Python's default sort.

#13

I have mixed feelings about the naming. Isn't it kinda off-putting that he named it after himself? usually it's other people who name your algorithm after you. At least that's how it's like in science and engineering (Fourier didn't call it "Fourier transform", Laplace didn't call it "Laplace transform", Kalman didn't name it "Kalman filters", etc.)

Like Dijkstra's algorithm? Knuth-Morris-Pratt algorithm? Huffman coding?

Re: JesseSort: A novel sorting algorithm that is faster than Python's default sort.

#14
post #11

If you're going to make a big claim about sort speed, tell me how speed is better/worse for various data. How do the algorithms compare when the data is already ordered, when it's almost (but not quite) already ordered, when it's largely ordered, when it's completely random, and it's in the opposite order. This stuff, as well as the size of the dataset, is what we need to know in practice.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/388955884_JesseSort

Re: JesseSort: A novel sorting algorithm that is faster than Python's default sort.

#15

I have mixed feelings about the naming. Isn't it kinda off-putting that he named it after himself? usually it's other people who name your algorithm after you. At least that's how it's like in science and engineering (Fourier didn't call it "Fourier transform", Laplace didn't call it "Laplace transform", Kalman didn't name it "Kalman filters", etc.)

He should have at least called it eejss-sort

Re: JesseSort: A novel sorting algorithm that is faster than Python's default sort.

#18

I have mixed feelings about the naming. Isn't it kinda off-putting that he named it after himself? usually it's other people who name your algorithm after you. At least that's how it's like in science and engineering (Fourier didn't call it "Fourier transform", Laplace didn't call it "Laplace transform", Kalman didn't name it "Kalman filters", etc.)

its only ok if your name is Tim?

Re: JesseSort: A novel sorting algorithm that is faster than Python's default sort.

#19
post #13

I have mixed feelings about the naming. Isn't it kinda off-putting that he named it after himself? usually it's other people who name your algorithm after you. At least that's how it's like in science and engineering (Fourier didn't call it "Fourier transform", Laplace didn't call it "Laplace transform", Kalman didn't name it "Kalman filters", etc.)

Like Dijkstra's algorithm? Knuth-Morris-Pratt algorithm? Huffman coding?

Did any of these guys put their name on the algorithm by themselves?
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