Sorting is a fundamental operation underpinning a wide array of computational tasks, from database indexing and network packet scheduling to real-time signal processing. Traditional CPU-based sorting ...

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 previous 'Quick Sort' was a 'speed-oriented' method that set a pivot and threw elements to the left or right. In contrast, the 'Merge Sort' introduced this time is an algorithm characterized by 'a ...