Quote Originally Posted by ggs
You can write a Visual Basic program which will outproform a finely crafted C++ program, if the C++ program uses bubble sort on a large data set, and the visual basic version uses a quick sort or shell sort.
Even then, it would probably a close-run thing. VB sucks. Ah, don't mind me -- I just feel a lot of hatred towards VB at the moment since I have to use it. :evil:

Introsort is pretty good too.

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