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by rasz 2631 days ago
n log n? and arent . .. entries always at the beginning of the list? could just skip first 2 elements (or stop comparing after filtering . ..). What about scandir?
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> n log n?

From the article: Digging into the source code of std::sort() we can see that it uses Insertion Sort for short collections. Our 32-element vector falls under the threshold. Insertion Sort makes O(N^2) comparisons

> arent . .. entries always at the beginning of the list?

No.