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		alexchamberlain on Feb 14, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Quadsort: a stable non-recursive merge sort This feels a little unfair; the function is invoked the same number of times, but C++ has a mechanism for removing the overhead of calling a function (inlining).

zhangxp1998 on Feb 14, 2020 [–]

I looked at disassembly of generated binary, sure, function calls inside quad sort were also inlined.

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