Building fast and highly performant data science applications requires an intimate knowledge of how data can be organized in a computer and how to efficiently perform operations such as sorting, ...

Chinese scientists have developed a faster and more energy-efficient method to sort data, which could be used to overcome limitations in scientific computing, artificial intelligence, and hardware ...

Instead, the new method uses memristors to perform iterative search-based sorting, finding minimum or maximum values without directly comparing each pair, which in turn saves both time and energy.