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LSort

Here is a Java implementation of the LSort algorithm, which is asymptotically 10x faster than the basic Quicksort implementation.

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Introduction

LSort is a hybrid sorting algorithm using MSD radix sort and Merge-insertion sort. On relatively small arrays, LSort falls back to Insertion sort. For larger ones, it first uses MSD radix sort to scale down the subarrays, then turns to Merge-insertion sort.

The specific implementation in this repository is concurrent.

Performance

LSort uses MSD radix sort to reduce the number of recursions. This allows it to have average runtime $\displaystyle \Theta \left( N + \frac1K \log N \right)$ and worst-case runtime $O \left( N^2 \right)$.

Performance of the Java implementation in this repository:

Environment

• CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS w/ Radeon 780M Graphics (16) @ 3.800GHz
• OpenJDK: 20.0.2