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Show HN: Sleepsort – Sorting While Sleeping
Categories: Algorithms Python Sorting Algorithms Sorting algorithms are like the organizers of the computer world, quietly putting everything in order. They help arrange data neatly, whether it's a list of names or scores.
Every modern operating system includes a scheduler, a vital component responsible for managing the execution of various tasks or processes running concurrently. While we can use the conventional threads to implement this sorting technique, we will be using asyncio python library which is more suited towards blocking IO-bound operations. The sole drawback of this algorithm lies in the time consumed during the sleep intervals, which is capped by the highest number within the unsorted input.
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