<story><title>Why is it faster to process a sorted array than an unsorted array? (2012)</title><url>https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11227809/why-is-it-faster-to-process-a-sorted-array-than-an-unsorted-array?m=1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>taeric</author><text>By far the most interesting part of this post is the update with newer compilers.  Intel&amp;#x27;s compiler, in particular, makes an awesome optimization.&lt;p&gt;Edit: The update is not new, either.  Just the part that I found interesting.  Apologies for any confusion.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>winstonewert</author><text>The update with the newer compilers was done back in 2012. There have only been minor changes since then. (Not to say that it isn&amp;#x27;t interesting, but so that people don&amp;#x27;t go to the post expecting new content and get disappointed)</text></comment>
<story><title>Why is it faster to process a sorted array than an unsorted array? (2012)</title><url>https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11227809/why-is-it-faster-to-process-a-sorted-array-than-an-unsorted-array?m=1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>taeric</author><text>By far the most interesting part of this post is the update with newer compilers.  Intel&amp;#x27;s compiler, in particular, makes an awesome optimization.&lt;p&gt;Edit: The update is not new, either.  Just the part that I found interesting.  Apologies for any confusion.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mikeash</author><text>Thanks for pointing that out. I&amp;#x27;d seen this before so I wasn&amp;#x27;t going to bother clicking the link, not knowing there was a cool new thing there.</text></comment>