In one of the classes I teach, we end up writing assembly language programs. And while I explain the (sometimes very relative) benefits of writing assembly language, I use bubble sort as an example where even carefully crafted assembly language doesn’t mean much: it’s a bad algorithm to start with.
YoU CanT MaKE BuBBleSorT FaSTER With ASseMbLY
Except that it’s not quite true.
Posted by Steven Pigeon 
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