Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror is the most prolific of the programmer bloggers that I read on a regular basis. His content is hit or miss but today’s article, Everything’s Fast For Small n, is worth it for this little animated sorting algorithm comparison:
From the GNU Coding Standards: If you do support Windows, please do not abbreviate it as “win”. In hacker terminology, calling something a “win” is a form of praise. You’re free to praise Microsoft Windows on your own if you want, but please don’t do this in GNU packages. Instead of abbreviating “Windows” to “un” [...]