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by lpage
1283 days ago
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Joshua Bloch did a great post [1] on how nearly all standard library binary searches and mergesorts were broken (as of 2006) due to this exact issue. The punchline is that the bugs started cropping up when the need and capability to sort O(2^32) element arrays arose. [1]: https://ai.googleblog.com/2006/06/extra-extra-read-all-about... |
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