Quicksort

Quicksort is an efficient, general-purpose sorting algorithm. Quicksort was developed by British computer scientist Tony Hoare in 1959 and published in 1961. It is still a commonly used algorithm for sorting.

Overall, it is slightly faster than merge sort and heapsort for randomized data, particularly on larger distributions.

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