April 20, 2016
#1670: Laws of Physics
((This comic is a “timeline” of algorithm complexity, ordered from least to most complex. The first five are roughly equally spaced, with the last item at the extreme end of the axis.))
Algorithms by complexity
More complex
Leftpad
Quicksort
Git merge
Self-driving car
Google search backend
Sprawling Excel spreadsheet built up over 20 years by a church group in Nebraska to coordinate their scheduling