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From: Paul L. Allen
Date: Sun, 09 Aug 1998 00:00

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In article <gUI7zNADfCz1EABV@turnpike.com>
    Richard Clayton <richard@turnpike.com> writes:

> You never use a BubbleSort for anything (he says, provocatively)

Well, it's OK (and may even be the best choice) for *very* small data
sets but it scales very, very badly.  So badly, in fact, that for large
data sets you can give up hope of it ever finishing.

We know a song about that, don't we, children?

    I'm forever sorting bubbles...

--Paul

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