Abstract: Traditional merge sort algorithms exhibit performance limitations on contemporary hardware architectures due to significant memory overhead and suboptimal use of parallel computing ...

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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Computer scientists often deal with abstract problems that are hard to comprehend, but an exciting new algorithm matters to anyone who ...

Abstract: Every algorithm has its own best-case as well as its worst-case scenario, so it is difficult to determine the best sorting algorithm just by its Big-O. Not only that, the amount of memory ...