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by joel_ms 2552 days ago
>this is a curse that's almost unique to Haskell—the language is also prevented from utilizing future improvements to sorting algorithms!

Back in reality of course, Haskell has fast, generic, linear-time sorting: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/discrimination

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I've been a proponent of radix sort since long before I'd heard of this package, but I think you've completely missed my point.