in reply to Sorting challenge

On an interesting note, browsing through all submissions for that challenge using perl, none have been successful. All of them are either 'time limit exceeded' or wrong answer..

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Re^2: Sorting challenge
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jul 23, 2013 at 21:17 UTC

    They are using a really slow machine. A C version of the insertion sort that takes 0.7 seconds on my machine takes 2.5 seconds on theirs.


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