Veteran engineer recalls a bubble sort that became a real bottleneck
srchvrs · x · 2026-11-15
srchvrs shares a career anecdote: he actually encountered a bubble sort implementation that became a performance bottleneck. Old Delphi (Object Pascal under the hood) lacked native sort algorithms, so someone hand-coded a bubble sort — which turned very inefficient once the dataset grew. A classic reminder that basic algorithm choices can bite real systems.
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