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Questions about the science and art of determining properties of algorithms, often including correctness, runtime and space usage. Use the [runtime-analysis] tag for questions about the runtime of algorithms.

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Why is Comb-sort (aka Dobosiewicz-sort) faster than Cocktail-sort (aka shake-sort)?

According to wikipedia, Cocktail-sort has an average performance of $O(n^2)$, whereas Comb-sort's average performance is $Ω(n^2/2^p)$, where $p$ is the number of increments. There's no explanation gi …
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