AlphaDev was able to shave an instruction off of sort-3, sort-5, and sort-8, and even more off of sort-6 and sort-7. There was only one (sort-4) where it didn't find a way to improve the human code.

For a programming language such as C++, a program called a compiler takes source code and converts it into a set of ‘assembly’ instructions that are, in turn, translated into machine-level code.

Here's my problem, i'm trying to do a selection sort on this array<BR>and in this array is a class called Animal. One of the variables in that class is the ID number which is an int. (The others ...

The existing C++ algorithm for sorting a list of five items took around 6.91 nanoseconds on a typical Intel Skylake chip. AlphaDev’s took 2.01 nanoseconds, around 70% faster. Related Story ...