Sorting is so basic that algorithms are built into most standard libraries for programming languages. And, in the case of the C++ library used with the LLVM compiler, the code hasn't been touched ...

When asked to create a sorting algorithm, AlphaDev came up with one that was 70 per cent faster than the best for lists of five pieces of data and 1.7 per cent faster for lists of over 250,000 items.

Jordan Dunbar explains the hidden algorithm of sorting out socks It's a laborious chore - matching up socks in a big pile of washing. They never seem to come out together, but now there's an ...