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by Denzel 3218 days ago
Different people have different reactions. That line is actually what piqued my interest.

Since AP CompSci in HS it's been hammered into students that any sort based on comparisons has a strict lower bound of O(n*log n).

And sorting is particularly important in search engines, of which I've been working on.

So, an algorithm that drastically improves the speed of sorting would actually open up a few more possibilities to consider.

Thanks for sharing the paper KirinDave, I plan to read it.