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by recursive 1107 days ago
70% better than O(N log N) is still O(N log N).
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It's 70% better than O(1). The algorithms it found are for sort3, sort4, and sort5, which were poorly optimized in LLVM's libc++.
It may have also laundered those from open-source code that wanted to optimize sort3, sort4, and sort5.