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by afr0ck 1519 days ago
You're refering to instruction-level parallelism. The parent was refering to thread-level parallelism.
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I mean, probably, which is also what I said. But what the parent actually said could also be either.

The point of my comment is that not only are the sorting algorithms changing over time, but what we say constitutes "algorithmic" vs. "implementation" changes also changes over time, so it's really hard to say whether certain changes are "algorithmic" changes or not!