Since this question is still getting a lot of attention, I decided to answer it by copying this answer from Code Review.SE:
You’re following the same philosophy as the bubble sort, which is very, very, very slow. Have you tried this?:
- Sort your unordered array with quicksort. Quicksort is much faster than bubble sort (I know, you are not sorting, but the algorithm you follow is almost the same as bubble sort to traverse the array).
- Then start removing duplicates (repeated values will be next to each other). In a
forloop you could have two indices:sourceanddestination. (On each loop you copysourcetodestinationunless they are the same, and increment both by 1). Every time you find a duplicate you increment source (and don’t perform the copy). @morgano

