Designing a practical sorting benchmark across Python, Rust, and C

I recently built a sorting playground, and one question kept coming up: How do you compare and evaluate sorting algorithms? Not just theoretically, but in practice. The problem A simple benchmark sounds easy: run the same algorithm measure time compare But it quickly becomes complicated: Python vs Rust vs C behave very differently large inputs can break CI pipelines some algorithms are not even benchmarkable The approach Instead of chasing perfect accuracy, I focused on something else: consisten